DaveWatkin
Member
Hey all,
I have been wanting to produce live food for awhile but time/space and wife have always been against me. I decided recently to try this Hatchery and it seems to work well. Doesn't take up too much space, no extra equipment and provides plenty of artemia for two to three days feeding at a time (depending on survival of artemia).
I'm currently feeding this for two/three days and then peas or cucumber on the off day while I reset hatchery and to make sure the shrimp get enough food (although the amanos do hunt the artemia surprisingly). I'm currently really low stocked, just three guppies in one tank and four black tetras in another so I feed one or two pipettes a time and they send the fish crazy for 10 minutes catching them all. Question is, are these small artemia enough for grown fish? They seem quite small, although each fish eats 50-100 at time probably.
I have a school of 20 chilli rasboras arriving soon and I think these will be great for them but not sure about the bigger guys.
Thanks for any help.
I have been wanting to produce live food for awhile but time/space and wife have always been against me. I decided recently to try this Hatchery and it seems to work well. Doesn't take up too much space, no extra equipment and provides plenty of artemia for two to three days feeding at a time (depending on survival of artemia).
I'm currently feeding this for two/three days and then peas or cucumber on the off day while I reset hatchery and to make sure the shrimp get enough food (although the amanos do hunt the artemia surprisingly). I'm currently really low stocked, just three guppies in one tank and four black tetras in another so I feed one or two pipettes a time and they send the fish crazy for 10 minutes catching them all. Question is, are these small artemia enough for grown fish? They seem quite small, although each fish eats 50-100 at time probably.
I have a school of 20 chilli rasboras arriving soon and I think these will be great for them but not sure about the bigger guys.
Thanks for any help.