Re: RE: NANFA-L-- Live Culture Options

Joey Holmes (Joey.Holmes-in-usd.edu)
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:18:58 -0600

Fish, some of them, do seem to enjoy isopods of both the aquatic and terrestrial persuasion. My original call for information was for odonate feeding and I have received a few helpful e-mails from some folks that are much appreciated. I can keep the chironomids and amphipods breeding like there is no tomorrow but my isopod cultures just don't reproduce. I'll keep trying and mayhaps I'll find the secret.
To those of you that were suggesting fish fry as an alternative- I was not ignoring your suggestions. Fish are just not a common enough organism in the habitats we work with to count as a natural diet for the larvae and that is an important goal with these dragons (not to mention that those little fry grow so dang quickly that I can only use them for a few days before I need another set). I tried tardigrades for some of the younger ones earlier this year and that didn't seem to get them very excited either.
My thanks again for all the helpful hints.
Joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Crail, Todd" <tcrail-in-UTNet.UToledo.Edu>
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:20 am
Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- Live Culture Options

> The original part about the isopods was in regard to feeding
> odonate larvae.
>
> Would fish eat them? We watch seasonal peaks and valleys in
> isopod abundance
> in the ditches we monitor. They seem to do really well when fish
> are absent,
> and curiously disappear when they come back ;)
>
> Todd
> The Pringles Madness, Toledo, OH
> It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
> http://www.farmertodd.com
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org on behalf of Mysteryman
> Sent: Mon 3/27/2006 11:47 PM
> To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
> Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Live Culture Options
>
>
>
> Crail, Todd wrote:
>
> >Hi Geoff,
> >
> >The articles kinda get-in-it, but I don't see (on a skim over)
> that they
> >address the aquatic types.
> >
> >The ones you find in your backyard are typically Armadillidium
> vulgare.They
> >
> >
> >
> Would a fish actually want to eat a pillbug? They are hard & crunchy,
> and then there's that disgusting smell... I suppose most fish
> might not
> actually mind that, but pillbugs shouldn't be a common natural prey
> item, should they?
>
> By the way, I met a guy online once who had wiped out his entire tank
> tank of African Cichlids by feeding them mushrooms. Good old
> portabellomushrooms, the ones we humans eat with such relish, are
> deadly to fish,
> it seems. He fed them to his fish to supplement their diet which
> was a
> bit too lean on "veggies," never thinking that 'shrooms aren't veggies
>-in-all.
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