need fish food smaller than mysis shrimp

[seaduck]

but bigger than cylopeeze...looking for something in between the 2. any suggestions?

[rayjay]

Brine shrimp
Or, grate a frozen food to the size you want, including fr. mysis.

[seaduck]

I guess im looking for something in addition to mysis and brine to add variety to their diets.

[javajaws]

What are you trying to feed? Formula One/Two Pellets work great.

[Acroholic]

Cyclopeze

[SDguy]

Dice the mysis while still frozen using a small paring knife. Works great.

[seaduck]

trying to feed two small gobies something besides live brine shrimp...They just ignore the cyclopeeze-too small? They pick at the smaller pieces of mysis shrimp but dont really seem interested. Just trying to find something new for them that they really like.

[LeslieP]

visit your friendly seafood shop and chop up some scallops, clams, fish, squid, shrimp - whatever they have. Mush it together with a little garlic, Selcon and Zoe and freeze it on a cookie sheet in little blobs. All of my fish love it.

[msman825]

i do like lesliep says, but i put it all in a blender. works great

[seaduck]

so i get the selcon and zoe from lfs? I'll give it a try. Heck if the fish dont like it then ill turn it into a seafood gumbo and eat it myself...thx

[theatrus]

Larger zooplankton like sweetwater jarred stuff is also smaller than mysis.

[tom obrecht]

Try daphnia. Hakari makes it in cubes. Works great for smaller fish and if you have any corals they like it as well.

[Tu Ku]

Yeah, make a cocktail of puree'd seafood. I was forced to buy my own "special fish yuck" blender, but when it looks like bloody mud, it's of exceptional size for small fish and polyps.

[spoiledcats]

Some of the frozen reef plankton in cubes that I get is pretty small. Then again, it can be pretty big, you just have to look at the package-the big stuff is easy to identify. All my fish love that stuff.

[flameangel88]

Try oyster eggs. I can't remember the brand but I think it's DT. I just got a couple of jars of Sweetwater's zooplankton. My fishes loves the New Life Spectrum Marine Fish Formula--very small pellets.

http://www.drsfostersmith.com/Product/Prod_Display.cfm?pcatid=8054&N=2004+6125

btw--drsfostersmith.com have the Sweetwater Zooplankton on sale for $1.99 and MD have it at $7.89

[seaduck]

thanks everyone for your suggestions...i now have plenty to offer my lil buddies.....sd

[msman825]

you ask lmao: lmao :D big grin :D big grin lmao: lmao

[MCary]

Blood worms...

[psidriven]

Surprised no one suggested Arcti Pods. Straight from their website "roughly 6x Cyclop-eze"

[LittlePuff]

Rotifers.

[flameangel88]

Expensive and I only feed that to the Mandarin.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8006715#post8006715 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by psidriven
Surprised no one suggested Arcti Pods. Straight from their website "roughly 6x Cyclop-eze"

[SuperNerd]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8006715#post8006715 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by psidriven
Surprised no one suggested Arcti Pods. Straight from their website "roughly 6x Cyclop-eze"

Is it live? What do people feed them to?

[Sk8r]

Arctipods are giant coldwater copepods, and they come preserved. Get the smaller bottle: the larger is if you have several tanks and there is an expiration. They are appreciated by a wide range of fish.

[SuperNerd]

Thanks, Sk8r :D

[dc]

You can buy already enriched frozen brine. I buy both spirulina and omega 3.

[diver_ua]

nauplia of artemia salina