Live Food Recommendation

[jmhart]

Looking to feed live food, primarily for chocolate gourami's, blue rams, and Weitzmani tetra. I'm also trying to breed my Ram's, so possibly fry. Not sure what food would suitable for fish and fry.

I was thinking about baby brine shrimp, but I wasn't sure if they are suitable for adult fish. Also considering microworms, but I have the same concern.

I'd prefer something I can cultivate on my own.

Any suggestions?

 

[feemia]

My fish all love baby brine shrimp, but because of their small size, it's more of a treat than a meal.

My Congo tetras and angels love wingless fruit flys. They always swim around underneath the flys, eyeing them suspiciously for a couple of minutes, but once one of them is brave enough to feed from the surface a feeding frenzy starts. If I don't close the cover, the Congos splash water on the floor.

 

[Notophthalmus]

Scuds!

One great thing about them is that they breed continuously, so you will always have an assortment of sizes available. Only the biggest predators or most devout vegetarians can turn down a scud. Also, it is very easy to cultivate microcrustaceans such as copepods and daphnids in your scud tank, so you get some great fry chow as well.

 

[DAVIDFBT]

I would go with bloodworms. Probably the easiest to care for live food. What I do to keep them alive is to keep them in a little shallow tupperware container with about 1/4 of an inch of water covering the worms. Keep them in your fridge and use a brine shrimp net to rinse them in cold water every day. To make sure you don't overload the container with worms, just have a layer of 1/2" at most of worms. They are easy to feed to fish too, take a medicine syringe or eyedropper to suck up however many worms you want and feed your fish by pumping out the worms. They will eventually learn to come up to the end and wait for the worms to come flying out. This is how I hand feed my ADFs and my Dwarf Gourami's main source of food.