I was doing some research and came across some people that hatch baby brine shrimp into their main reef tank all day and stop it at night… Do any of you guys practice this? Recommend this? Are there benefits such as your corals and fish will be fed with out me dumping flakes and mysis in all the time?
Never heard of anyone doing it and wouldn’t do it myself, but it might not be a horrible thing. It is still possible to over feed doing this and you would still need to address the specific needs of all your animals. I don’t think angel fish or tangs would live a long healthy life on this diet alone.
What sort of flakes are you feeding? Do you ever rinse your mysis? Do you add anything to you foods?(like garlic, vitamins, or other additives?)
I feed my fish marine flakes, formula 2 pellets with garlic and frozen mysis. I feed my LPS just mysis. I do not add anything to the mysis. I did just get my first LPS for my tank, so i will feed a variety but the first feeding was mysis.
i think they r a neat idea from time to time. prolly wouldnt use it all thetime simply due to the nutritional value of brine shrimp isnt much at all. but for new or finnicky fish, it could be a great way to get them settled and hopefully move to eating prepared foods. i throw a little live brine in my reef once a month or so, or when adding a new fish just to get them eating. the hang on hatcheries r pretty mess free and simple to use.
yea it was just a thought… maybe later next month ill treat them to some live food. perhaps having the hatchery in play isnt all that beneficial
Newly hatched brine shrimp are very nutritions. they loose value as they grow and used their fat supply from the cyst. there is this one little hatchery you can hang on the tank. as the brine shrimp cycts hatch in the outer tube, they can swim down thru the u-tube and into the tank at a slow rate leaving the shells behind. tasty treats for fish and lps corals.
http://www.aquacave.com/continuous-hatchn-feeder-91.html
Or you can keep a half dozen pepermint shrimp in your tank. As long as you have no shrimp eating fish, like hawk fish and probably others, the shrimp will clean up excess food from the sand and rock, and then spawn every 21 days. when they release their fry larvae at night, its also great live fish and coral food. a little bigger than new hatched brine shrimp. with 6 mature shrimp, you get a hatch every few days. I go for the shrimp. They Clean and feed.
that is a neat idea… for less than 20$ trying it for a month or so and see changes might be worth it…
In my 24AQ pepermint shrimp could be a hassle…
would a sixline get along with pepermint shrimp?