Thanks for the advice, good sir. I’ve tried looking for ghost shrimp at several PetSmart stores but they’re hard to come by. None of non-chain LFS carry them either. Anyone know a good source for ghost shrimp?
As much as some will try and argue that feeding fresh water fare is not nutritious, bull feathers, all that have argued with me on that point, can't keep a dwarf lion alive more than a few months to a year. I've kept fuzzies on guppies, mollies, and ghosties for as long as 10 years; my current longest resident is a fu manchu for over 7 years, I have 2, very few can keep them alive at all. Ghosties have shells and guts, guppies have bones and guts, your food is only as nutritious as you feed them.
A fresh water feeding tank is easier, less expensive, and very unlikely possible to transfer any diseases; and you'll be able to acquire foods locally. Set up a 10g or even a small container of sorts with a simple sponge filter set up. Petsmart does get ghosties, you just have to catch them delivery days because they sell out fast. regular feeder guppies are also good, I get fancy guppies for mine when they are on sale; some of my bad boys are 7". Feed you feeders with a marine food and pellet food for gut loading, I use OmegaOne micro pellets. Dose the feeder tank with your choice of vitamins, I using chemivit. When you pull feeders for the day's feeding, dose the container with Brightwell aminomega or selcon along with choice multi-vits; give it 15min or so.
I keep my tanks wild, predator zones, mostly feeding live; so i am not the best person to talk to about feeding dead foods. But the fuzzy does have a good track record for eating dead food and living longterm, but 1st of all as I stated above, they will not sustain if you expect them to eat stuff like mysis, etc from the water column. First feed fresh dead ghosties or guppies, it's easy enough to fool them just by dropping them in as usual. It won't take long before he will be swimming to top to beg for food, target drop the dead food for him to catch it while being suspended in the water column. There's a krill that I get from the asian market, we have Ranch Markets out here if you have that one, they are whole and not pink like at the lfs, this stuff fools them easily. After that try other dead stuff, I also get this stuff called silver fish from the asian market. Chunks of shrimp, scallop, squid, cut up bits of silversides, After that it's all hit or miss.
but this fuzzy swims everywhere and loves the camera.
