Re: NANFA-- Feeding Blue Spotted Sunfish Questions

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:56:26 -0400

Mike, the larger one may take to eating the grass shrimp.I don't think
you'll hurt anything by giving an algae wafer or two to the shrimp. If you
have a shop near you, you can buy a bag of brine shrimp. They'll keep well
(alive) in your refrigerator for a few days. Don't forget to rinse the
brine off, though, as enneacanthus don't like salt.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Heinich" <mheinich_at_yahoo.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 1:14 PM
Subject: NANFA-- Feeding Blue Spotted Sunfish Questions

> I have my first NA Fish tank setup now. 5 Blue spots
> and several grass shrimp. One shrimp has a clutch of
> eggs. They are all in a 5g tank. There is one full
> grown sunfish and the rest are half his size or
> smaller.
>
> The first evening they seem to ignore freeze dried
> fare of tubifix worms and blood worms. I put in
> frozen (dethawed of course) blood worms yesterday and
> the smaller ones took to it well. The large one
> seemed to ignore it. Today I tried the freeze dried
> blood worms by themselves and the smaller ones went
> after them. Including a couple who ate the worms
> while they were still floating at the top. Someone
> had mentioned that they wont taking floating food.
> The word didn't reach these small guys. The large
> blue spot ignored this fare again.
>
> I am wondering if he is too old and set in his ways
> and soon he will starve to death unless I get some
> live worms or something.
>
> I want to keep to either frozen or freeze dried fare.
> I don't want to mess with live food right now.
>
> What else would be good to feed them? Should I try
> the freeze dried tubifix worms again? I know that any
> hatchlings from the Grass Shrimp will become food but
> I can't count on that.
>
> Any know if I should feed the grass shrimp some broken
> algae wafers or let them feed off the leftovers (if
> any) from the sunfish?
>
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