by PeterJ added Wednesday, 4 October 2006

If you live in an area that’s not too cold or too dry there’s a fair chance you’ll be able to harvest mosquito egg rafts as a source of food for your aquarium fish. As a Betta splendens breeder I use use newly hatched mosquito larvae (wrigglers) as an alternative to hatching commericially available Artemia salina (brine shrimp). Mosquito egg rafts are free to harvest, requiring very little equipment and only a few minutes each day, and the wrigglers won’t die in the tank. Read the rest of this entry »

by Deborah & Rodney Ralph
First published in Tank Talk, Canberra and District Aquarium Society, Australia

This is one way of getting infusoria easily, quickly, cheaply and without much fuss. Bits and pieces of the information have come from books and ideas other people have had and also our own, mixed together, which has given us good results. Read the rest of this entry »

by Chase Klinesteker
SouthWestern Michigan Aquarium Society. From SWAM, March/April 2002 Issue.

Worms are a very high protein live food that is eaten eagerly by almost all species of tropical fish. Although they can be overfed because of their high fat content, usually the problem is to get enough of them to feed your fish. George Coy has been making black worms available to club members at SWMAS meetings, and that has been a great help. However, smaller fish and fry cannot eat black worms, and it takes a lot of newly hatched brine shrimp to get them to the size where they can eat them. With the high price of brine shrimp eggs, a good substitute would be in order. Read the rest of this entry »

by Bill Childers
First published in Fincinnati, the official newsletter of the Greater Cincinnati Aquarium Society

Key elements in the proper care of aquarium fishes would include water quality, space, temperature, fish compatibility and food. Just “feeding the fish” is easy - buy a can of flakes or pellets at a shop and be done with it. However, a thoughtful Aquarius will go beyond this most basic feeding philosophy and at least buy two types of dry food - one for morning and one for evening. Perhaps he will even buy a package of frozen shrimp for an occasional treat. Most aquarium fish will survive with such a feeding program. After all most commercially prepared foods are carefully made with fish nutrition in mind - emphasis on “most”. I once bought a can of green flakes formulated for herbivores only to see on the ingredients list that animal fat had been used as a binder! Read the rest of this entry »

by Abbey Wilkins added 2006

Vinegar eels are quite possibly the easiest live fish food you will ever find. They are as close as you will get to finding something that thrives on neglect.

YOU WILL NEED:

Firstly you need a vinegar eel culture. This is just a small amount of someone else’s vinegar eels that you use to breed your own. Specialist aquarium shops sometimes stock this, but your best bet is to find a group of people who breed small tropical fish. Read the rest of this entry »

by Lisa Norris added Wednesday 12, July 2006

Microworms (”MW”) are a great 1st food for small fry. I usually feed them to my betta fry for the 1st 3 days after they are free swimming (after they have absorbed their yolk sac).

Before you begin

You will need an established MW culture to act as a starter culture, because there is no such thing as spontaneous generation of MW!

If you would like a starter culture please post a WTB in the Classifieds and I know that plenty of our members would be very happy to help you out. Read the rest of this entry »