I was looking around Polyart at clementi last week and came across this hikari freeze dried daphnia... what surprised me where the ratios given for the stuff... If I remember right, it was 66% protien and 9% fat... 0.1% phosphates... which is pretty good! At such levels your fishes should fatten up in no time. However, when I tried it at home I was a little more dissapointed... the stuff comes out like slightly lumpy talcum powder... the big lumps get eaten really quickly, but the small ones are like dust on the water surface. I suspect a lot of it just sat there un eaten
Still, perhaps this stuff may make a better feed for young fish as it is really fine.
Besides the daphnia, they also had freeze dried brineshrimp, blood worms and tubilfex worms... while the ratios where also quite high (brine shrimp being the lowest), they were lower than that of the daphnia.
Just wondering if anyone else has tried this before?
Allen
Why don't you just get the frozen daphnia instead of freeze dried? If you thaw the cube and then feed the frozen daphnia to your fish, its actually quite clean. Larger frys can eat it without problem.
I always use it to replace live daphnia when my betta frys are large enough to eat non-moving food
tried it before,. container is too big. by the time you're 1/4 down,the rest of it becomes MOLDY or something.
frozen is better, fresher...
hopefully it last better in the fridge... which is where I keep my fish food
Allen
Good idea Allen, I got a bottle as well from C328 sometime back. Forgot to put it in the fridge and now it's starting to smell a bit strange.
BTW, it's great for the hatchets and pencil fish, but I think the lower swimming fish like rummy nose and bleeding hearts don't go for it
Any way to make it sink?
eggz
I feed my fished the frozen variety and all seems well , it gets everywhere and all the fishes seems to go for it with gusto. Doesnt cloude tank and the ones that sink will be promptly walloped by the cories. good stuff
The corner shop at AMK ave 10 has a wide range of fish food inc Hikari, all at the lowest price I've seen.
amk ave 10? whick blk?
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