Dosing Brine Shrimp

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Hello everyone. I am relatively new to the hobby and have a question about feeding my fish. I am currently feeding my 3 banggai cardinals and 2 ocellaris clowns pellets, but want to start feeding brine or mysis shrimp. Now maybe i'm just being to lazy, but I've heard of people 'dosing shrimp'. So basically I am wondering if i can put live brine in a dosing container and set a timer to once or twice a day dose food. Any thoughts? It seems pretty ingenious to me, but am I missing something?


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IM Nuvo 24, current usa marine lighting, 2 ocellaris clowns, 3 banggai cardinals,
green and red falvia, assorted zoa's, rbta, purple with green tipped torch, margarita snails.
 
Its possible but I do not think it would be efficient. For example, say you have your live brine in a container with some sort of dosing mechanism into that container. If you dose "x" amount of seconds, you may only get a few brine at a time and other times you may get more.

It doesn't sound efficient to me.
 
I guess that would make sense. I might try a cheep setup just to see, but your right I probably will get different amounts of food each time.

thenanoreef
 
Best bet would to breed your brine in a 2 liter bottle or in a small 5g tank. Then just add a good amount during feeding time(s).
 

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