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I normally feed my fish "Tetramin flakes". As a treat I will (alternating) give them thawed peas smashed, frozen bloodworm or daphnia. I decided to give something else a try when my daphnia was depleted. I read up on tubifex and decided against them. I know they are commercially farmed but, I was not thrilled by the type of water it was raised in. I'm riding the fence on brine shrimp since they are "salt raised". I decided to try "Hikari krill", since they are a building block of the ocean's ecosystem. Do you know those ingrates won't eat it?! The little buggers (Angels) had the nerve to spit it back out! Of course the barbs and yo-yo's ate it, but they eat everything. How do I entice the Angels to eat the krill? I would hate to waste my money on something that all of the fish in the tank won't eat. Any suggestions?

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Kelly ;o}

Mine wouldn't eat it either. I've finally gotten some rainbows that like it, but they are the only fish so far that are anywhere near interested. Even the scavenging crabs and cray won't touch the stuff. It must be the fishy equivalent to flavoured cardboard or something.

You could try just keeping on feeding it. The group eating should eventually convince the angels it should be swallowed and not spat, but it might take some perseverence and it might not work out if the angels are stubborn.

I'm curious as to why "salt raised" is worrying as I've not really thought much beyond it being a good thing. Feeding saltwater items to freshwater fish does limit the possible pathogens that could come through with the food, and the amount of salt contained in the food should not be anywhere near enough to alter your water chemistry. Krill are likely to have been wild caught in salt too.

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett

Thanks, that was exactly my worry. I thought brine shrimp being salt raised could be harmful if eaten too often. Possibly causing bloat or some other malady that I didn't want to deal with.

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Kelly ;o}

my fish go ape .... crazy for krill but i got bichirs and they eat so much krill its not funny just depends on the fish......