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Live Foods: The Essential Guide for Healthy Fish Nutrition

Explore the world of live foods for your aquatic pets with expert tips on ease of use, nutrition, aesthetics, and more. Discover the best options, from microworms to zooplankton, for optimal fish health and growth.

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Live Foods: The Essential Guide for Healthy Fish Nutrition

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  1. Live Foods By Todd Wenzel

  2. Good: Prepared Foods • Better: Frozen Foods • Best: Live!!!

  3. Considerations • Ease of use or collection • Nutritional value • Aesthetics / Side Effects

  4. Natural Progression Small >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Large

  5. Very Small Why? Fry from Tetras, Gouramis, Rainbowfish etc. are far too small to eat baby brine shrimp! • Green Water • Infusoria • Rotifers

  6. Very Small Green Water “Infusoria” Rotifers

  7. Also Very Small Vinegar Eels = SIMPLE!!!

  8. And… • Microworms

  9. Next on the Size Ladder • Good for larger fry: Guppies, some Cichlids etc. • New Hatched Brine Shrimp • Zooplankton

  10. Next on the Size Ladder • New Hatched Brine Shrimp… only since the 1940’s • New Hatched, not just “baby” brine shrimp

  11. …and just a little larger: • Zooplankton • Collectable • Stimulating • Freezable

  12. Zooplankton

  13. Grindal Worms • Larger: 3/16 – 3/8” • Less temperature sensitive: 68 – 75°F

  14. Adult Brine Shrimp • “Supposedly” easy to grow… • Can be “gut loaded” with Selcon - contains Omega-3 HUFA, Vitamin B12 and pure stabilized Vitamin C

  15. Dee’s Least Favorite Food

  16. Remember that statement about “Side Effects!”

  17. My Favorite Live Food Daphnia magna

  18. Blackworms • Require cleaning • High protein content • Keep cold(?)

  19. Blackworms • Keep cold(?) Thanks to Lonny Langoine, Aquarium Club of Lancaster Co.

  20. Blackworms Either way it’s the food that keeps on feeding…

  21. Getting’ Bigger Grass or Glass Shrimp

  22. Earthworms • Highly nutritious, 67% protein • Can be fed whole or chopped as appropriate • May be purchased or grown

  23. Other Opinions on Live Foods

  24. Other Opinions on Live Foods

  25. Additional Reading • Look for food articles in future newsletters: • “Topless” Brine Shrimp (decapsulating) • Keeping BlackwormsUnrefrigerated • Manual on the Production and Use of Live Food for Aquaculture: http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/w3732e/w3732e00.htm

  26. The obligatory sunset slide…

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