brine shrimp betta

Mister Gardener wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:39:51 -0400, "Nikki"
wrote:

my bettas eat a lot, i do give them other type worms but for what ever
reason they did not seem to want to eat the frozen brine shrimp, they seemed
to be a little better with it the second time around.
Nik

I've been trying some of the freeze dried foods lately - some reading
I've been doing suggests that today's freeze dried foods may be better
preserved than frozen. I have no facts to back this claim, but I've
been feeding freeze dried bloodworms, tubifex, and brine shrimp from
Omega, and my fish can never get enough of it.
http://omegasea.net/products3.html

I've never been brave enough to feed tubifex in any form. I have had
enough trouble with blackworms (and they're not even grown in sewage) to
make me hesitate.

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On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:22:10 GMT, Altum
wrote:

Mister Gardener wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:39:51 -0400, "Nikki"
wrote:

my bettas eat a lot, i do give them other type worms but for what ever
reason they did not seem to want to eat the frozen brine shrimp, they seemed
to be a little better with it the second time around.
Nik

I've been trying some of the freeze dried foods lately - some reading
I've been doing suggests that today's freeze dried foods may be better
preserved than frozen. I have no facts to back this claim, but I've
been feeding freeze dried bloodworms, tubifex, and brine shrimp from
Omega, and my fish can never get enough of it.
http://omegasea.net/products3.html

I've never been brave enough to feed tubifex in any form. I have had
enough trouble with blackworms (and they're not even grown in sewage) to
make me hesitate.

Tubifex can cause trouble even after going through the cleaning and
freeze drying process?

-- Mister Gardener

Mister Gardener wrote:

Tubifex can cause trouble even after going through the cleaning and
freeze drying process?

-- Mister Gardener

I doubt they clean internally and many bacteria produce spores. But my
hesitation may be simple paranoia.

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As a betta food I don't think anything beats mosquito wrigglers.
Ya can even gutload them on spirulina to get very pretty fishys.
Mosquito larva don't take oxygen from the water they use a snorkle. So live
food that doesn't use oxygen from water. handy.
If you go about it the right way it's easy.
ya need some rainwater in a shallow tray. Throw in a good pinch of yeast.
Leave it in the shade outside.
Female mozzies come lay there at night. You check in the morning and fish
out the floating egg rafts.
Kinda little floaty things that come back up if ya push them under the water
with a finger tip.
Depends on your local species, but mine can be stored in plastic bags in the
fridge.
When I need a batch of wrigglers I can pull out an egg-raft and chuck it in
a plastic icecream tub full of fresh fishtank water. Usually they hatch soon
after being put in water(2hours). You then merely toss in a bit of flake or
whatever and grow them to size needed. Don't let them hatch. You aren't
breeding the evil creatures. This is a sneaky trap. Death to the blood
suckers! May their children be made into betta food.
heh heh
Freshly hatched they are handy for fry food. Some species are very tiny and
have many many young. They can be size harvested by using nets with
different sized mesh and merely tipping water between buckets.
low tech but live food makes the difference and I get some good sized bubble
nests.