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Posted: August 05 2007 at 12:40am |
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Has anyone ever ordered any type of live food off the internet? Not feeder shrimp, but I mean like, brine, copepods, etc. If so, how did it go, and where did you order them from? I know most of you will say that you get these things from your LFS, but I'm in Oklahoma, and my nearest LFS is two hours away. And they don't really order any live foods.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 12:44am |
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You could order eggs from brineshrimpdirect.com and hatch your own. I am not sure how well the live food ships.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 1:29am |
If you are buying brine shrimp I would go to Brineshrimpdirect.com like Jeff has mentioned and buy the capsulated eggs, you dont even have to hatch them just saturate them in water for a bit then feed. I hear it is way good food. As for other foods I havent attempted
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 8:09am |
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BSD decapped eggs won't hatch. If you order BS eggs from them, you might consider getting the smallest amount possible. This years eggs will not be available for a few months.
Florida Aqua Farms is a good source for live phytoplankton cultures and supplies. You can also get rotifer cysts from them.
Aquagen is my favorite source for phyto cultures. Very clean stuff. He has some rare species unavailable elsewhere.
Reed Mariculture grows out the algae and rotifers and sells that as a product. You can not get them to grow though. They do have a very strong species of copepod that is easy to culture, though and many of us here do. They grow well feeding the algae mix that Reed sells.
OceanPods is a mix of 3 types of copepods. It's available online.
Live ghost shrimp (they need to be gut loaded before feeding to our SW fish) are available at Petco.
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Posted: August 05 2007 at 9:10pm |
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Thanks guys! I guess I'm more interested in the copepods because I would really like to get a green mandarin. My tank is mature enough, but I want to make sure that it will get plenty to eat. I will try the OceanPods. I don't know anything about rotifers, but I'm assuming that the mandarin won't eat that. Will they eat the ghost shrimp?
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Posted: August 06 2007 at 7:36am |
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A green spot mandarin might eat frozen, mine did. If you see one at the LFS, ask them to feed him.
OceanPOds are great for any tank, but they are small. They will be a good treat for the mandarin but I am not sure they can sustain him.I don't think ghost shrimp would work for a mandarin, they are kinda big.
If the green spot won't eat frozen, it would be hard to keep him in a smaller tank, but I do think most will eat frozen food.
The psycodelic ones, OTOH are very finicky IMO.
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Posted: August 06 2007 at 10:08pm |
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And of course, the finicky one is the one I want! That is why I want to find a way to keep it fed. How big are the bottles of pods? I realize that some of the dragonets will eat frozen, but I don't want to count on it.
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