Live Food

[maurizio]

Hello all,
I have 10 small Parambassis Ranga, at the moment keept in a hatchery to protect them from the attentions of 3 Archers. For the time being they only accept live mosquito larvae.

I'll have to leave for about a week, and I was wondering if it's a good idea to throw into their little home the whole content of the usual mosquito larvae bag: will they overfeed? Will the nutrient liquid pollute the water? Anybody with better solutions?

Thanks!

 

[Tonyb111111]

Hello all,
I have 10 small Parambassis Ranga, at the moment keept in a hatchery to protect them from the attentions of 3 Archers. For the time being they only accept live mosquito larvae.

I'll have to leave for about a week, and I was wondering if it's a good idea to throw into their little home the whole content of the usual mosquito larvae bag: will they overfeed? Will the nutrient liquid pollute the water? Anybody with better solutions?

Thanks!

Just my opinion really, but when I give live food i always take a glass of tank water, sieve the food through a tea strainer to get rid of the liquid and put the food in the glass of tank water. There always seems to be a lot of crud in the liquid which I don't like to add to the biomass in the tank. Ian not familiar with your fish so can't really advise on how best to feed

Hello all,
I have 10 small Parambassis Ranga, at the moment keept in a hatchery to protect them from the attentions of 3 Archers. For the time being they only accept live mosquito larvae.

I'll have to leave for about a week, and I was wondering if it's a good idea to throw into their little home the whole content of the usual mosquito larvae bag: will they overfeed? Will the nutrient liquid pollute the water? Anybody with better solutions?

Thanks!

Just my opinion really, but when I give live food i always take a glass of tank water, sieve the food through a tea strainer to get rid of the liquid and put the food in the glass of tank water. There always seems to be a lot of crud in the liquid which I don't like to add to the biomass in the tank. I am not familiar with your fish so can't really advise on how best to feed

 

[maurizio]

Thanks Tonyb,
sounds like a good advise. I only recently discovered that that liquid is indeed not just water: definitely not a good idea to add it (although it's about a couple of teaspoons per day I'm adding).

The main doubts remain, if the fish will overfeed, or the food will start dying, thus polluting the water. If nobody has a clue, I'll simply have to give it a try...

Cheers

 

[swanseastilo]

I always put the whole bag of live food in. what ever lives to see another day. Gets eaten the next day

 

[maurizio]

Great, will go for it!