live food for predators

Fredericksburg · Apr 10, 2016

What live foods are you feeding your predatory fish? What is easy to breed?

Fredericksburg · Apr 10, 2016

Anyone?

FeliciaLynn · Apr 10, 2016

The easiest live food to feed is live ghost shrimp. You can gut load them with quality marine flakes or pellets before feeding them to your predators, so that they provide the appropriate nutrition. A lot of stores (including Petco and Petsmart) stock the freshwater ghost shrimp as feeders. If you want saltwater ghost shrimp, you can order those online from places like Floridapets.com. In terms of breeding, I don't know anything about that.

Fredericksburg · Apr 12, 2016

Thanks felicialynn. Anything other then ghost shrimp? Looking to buy and breed.

Fredericksburg · Apr 14, 2016

Hello

rayn · Apr 15, 2016

Really not sure on breeding. You could do mollies I suppose.

Why not try and convert to frozen? What type of predators are we talking?

FeliciaLynn · Apr 16, 2016

Most of the live food that people breed are small like brine shrimp, Copepods, rotifers, etc. Those won't work for predator fish, which need bigger food. I don't really know of anyone breeding any larger foods. I'd just recommend getting live ghost shrimp while you're weaning onto frozen food. It's definitely a good idea to get them onto frozen food so that you can feed them a more varied and nutritionally complete diet.

Fredericksburg · Apr 17, 2016

The fish are a lionfish and grouper. I plan on buying more fish.

Fredericksburg · Apr 26, 2016

Anything else besides mollies and ghost shrimp.

FilterFreak · Apr 28, 2016

Guppies can work but their pretty small.. DO NOT FEED Gold fish- a ton of Ammonia in them, there are many better choices out there- I keep 5 Groupers at the moment and of course I want more... I have kept Groupers in the past and most of my FOWLR experience lies with them... They are such great eaters and beautiful fish...

How and what I Feed-
I feed my Groupers with long forceps so i can control who and how much gets fed to keep waste in the tank down...
I feed them a wide variety of fresh and frozen foods... Fresh/Frozen Shrimp Oysters cut up to fit their mouth better- musscles cut up- raw Lobster chunks- Raw fresh Talapia- Chunk Tuna-freeze dried krill- all put in a small cup of tank water with vitamins added- I try to stay away from feeding live prey items, i do not want them getting in the habit of hunting...