Nutrition Question

[Marisa Persaud]

Hi; Sorry, as a newbie I’m realizing I have multiple questions.
Can we substitute Gammarus shrimp(Gammarus sp., prob pulex) for baby brine shrimp as a nutritional staple?
I have a colony of brine shrimp, just FYI. I just prefer food bred in freshwater.

Are there any problems with copepods(lab-bought) which rule them out as a nutritional staple?

Thank you!

[Dorothee Jöllenbeck-Pfeffel]

Hello!
As far as I know, nearly every clean living food which is small enough for a Paros mouth can be eaten by them and gives a variation of food.

But nauplia is in winter the most comfortable way to have enough food for our fish … And generations of aquarists have used it without salty complications… as far as I know … Of course I wash the salty water away with a sieve before feeding them …

[Marisa Persaud]

But, for example, Daphnia is listed on this site as being too high in fiber to take the place as a staple. So I am curious about the others.

[Peter Finke]

[quote=”SchizotypalVamp” post=4452]Can we substitute Gammarus shrimp(Gammarus sp., prob pulex) for baby brine shrimp as a nutritional staple? I have a colony of brine shrimp, just FYI. I just prefer food bred in freshwater.[/quote]

Artemia (Brine shrimps) are ideal food for young and growing licorice gouramies. Of course, they must be rinsed with fresh water. Your wish to “prefer food bred in freshwater” is an old one; there is no alternative to the easily bred brine shrimps.

But in a certian way there is an alternative: Moina macrocarpa. Breeding Moina is someties very easy and sometimes it does not work at all. At any rate you should try it. The propagation may be very fast, and soon there are all stages of animals between the size of fresh Artemia naupliae and 2 millimeters, like Daphnia. Ideal food for Paros of all ages.

Daphnia are readily taken by most Paros, but they don’t like it very much because of the hardness of their shells. Moina are much softer. They are an ideal food for Paros. Try to get and breed Moina. In a way its easier to breed than Daphniae, but they should be fed their yeast water daily. If you are away from home for three days, they mostly die. That’s the only problem.

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