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Hi Folks

One of my recent topics had a reply "...grow you own foods"

Has anyone any info of grow your own or any threads that give me information?

How, what and where do you get the "food" in the first place?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Dave

Well, it depends on what type of fish you'd like to feed, and what you have available to house/grow/feed/harvest them. Many live foods are easy to get at an LFS, a local bait shop or through the magic of the internet.

Many places can get you starter cultures of just about any bug out there for your fishies. After that, it's just up to you to keep them alive and breeding to feed your fish.

What fish are you looking to feed?

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The best foods to cultivate are Daphnia, Bloodworm and Brine Shrimp. Brine Shrimp hatcheries can be bought at most decent aquarium stores, along with the eggs (get 'shell-less' Artemia for best results, and feed them with yeast and a tiny amount of liquid fry food). Daphnia and Bloodworm are ideal for pond culture if you have a pond. If not, any large container filled with water will house them.

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I never had any luck with the aquatic live food but raised wingless fruit flies and waxworms for other animals. All you need is a jar and some ingrediants to mix up food. Fish love fruit flies.

there is a uk website called global live foods. I haven't used them yet but am planning to.

I grow maggots in the green house (slice of luncheon meat or similar in a flowerpot with no holes it & two pots on top with holes) but this sticks the house out.

I also collect rain water in a bucket in the garden & let it stay there for a month or so & it seams to grow daphnia which I net & put in the tank - but one bucket doesn't grow much.

Lastly i did up earth worms from the garden (my peacock & gold serverum love them).

But buying it from the LFS is my main one. I buy once per month as a treat & feed frozen the rest of the time.

I'm going try online soon.

hope this helps?!

I grow Microworms & Brine Shrimp. For Microworms you must get a starting culture & for Brine Shrimp you must have a hatchery & buy the eggs. Both are quite easy to do.



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I never got the hang of brine shrimp...this doesn't bother me though as my fish like something bigger now. (river shrimps is a fave as are worms)