Feeding Fish Live Ghost Shrimp

[GobyMaster]

Okay, I have a 30 gallon set-up, see it here, and it currently has 1 Marbled Sand Goby, 1 Senegal Bichir, and 1 Bristlenose Plecostomus, and I am going to get the following for it: 6 Boesemani Rainbowfish, 1 Reedfish, 3 Banjo Catfish, and 1 Striped Raphael Catfish. I currently feed my goby and my bichir frozen krill, but I have an empty 5 gallon set-up that I could use to raise ghost shrimp to feed my larger fish. How exactly would I feed fish that are use to having frozen food some live ghost shrimp, and is it even good for the fish?

Thanks for the help!

GobyMaster

 

[andywg]

Live feeders are a sgood as the food given to the feeder. Gut load the shrimp on decent flake food and they will become a good food source.

As to feeding, just drop them in the tank, the fish will hunt them down.

 

[cane76]

river shrimp are hard to keep alive
you might be better of trying guppies
plus you can gutload guppies on a much bigger variety of foods

 

[andywg]

river shrimp are hard to keep alive
you might be better of trying guppies
plus you can gutload guppies on a much bigger variety of foods

Really? I just dump some salt in a tank without a heater and leave them to it, you get a few die off in the first couple of days, but after that they are fine.

 

[cane76]

ive tried that a few times and they all die within a few weeks

 

[treelo]

would any of the fish he has mentioned eat live shrimp?

 

[Straydum]

my guess would be the bichir and the reed

 

[GobyMaster]

would any of the fish he has mentioned eat live shrimp?

my guess would be the bichir and the reed

Well, my goby would eat them, too, as he's a pig and he'll eat anything!

Thanks!

GobyMaster