Keeping Feeder Creatures

[Eelzor]

I want to start a live feeder creature tank. Can I mix Bloodworms with Brine Shrimp, Ghost Shrimp and feeder fish? Together? If not can I have some compatible lists on which species can go with which?

 

[CFC]

Ghost shrimp will eat bloodworms and brineshrimp but could be combined with feeder fish (BTW why do you want feeder fish? None of the fish you have or have said you want need feeders in their diet).
It is not a good idea to keep bloodworms in water, they are the larvea of a non biting species of mosquito and in the warmth of a house will soon turn into flies, i buy my bloodworms 100 grams at a time and store them wraped in damp newspaper in the fridge.
Brine shrimp can be bred in reasonable quantities quite easily in a 2 litre lemonade bottle with a airstone, raising them to a good size is trickier.

Another good trick for getting some free live foods is to leave a bucket of water under some bushes in the garden (unfortunatley it only works in the warmer months ). After a couple of weeks the water should be teeming with life from the various bugs that have layed there eggs in it. Just take a fine meshed net and collect what food you need each day, any bugs that have fallen in and drowned can be used as well.

 

[Eelzor]

GREAT! thanks CFC, summer is just round the corner for us aussies, so ill get the bucket fill with water, chuck a few plants in under the bushes in the warm 35C weather and come the next day to pick up my free live food. But I will still have my brine kept. By the way, what can i feed brine shrimp?

 

[Lateral Line]

Brine shrimp can be fed with the liquid suspension foods sold to marine reef tank owners who have filter feeding inverts, my is called "Liquizell". They are difficult to grow to any size though, and of course, once they're eating, they're producing toxic waste so you need to think about a filter, reef tank grade if you want them to grow to adulthood.

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I used to use an old tank in the garden for free live food - remember to harvest it often - one of the most common things that breeds in these buckets is mosquitos and you don't really want clouds of them emerging from your bushes!!!

 

[Eelzor]

(BTW why do you want feeder fish? None of the fish you have or have said you want need feeders in their diet).

usually the questions i ask like this are just for wanting to know fact.

 

[Inchworm]

(BTW why do you want feeder fish? None of the fish you have or have said you want need feeders in their diet).

usually the questions i ask like this are just for wanting to know fact.

It was a good question, Eelzor. I learned a lot from this thread. My thanks!