Food for redbreasted sunfish
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Eh there's nothing wrong with live foods, especially if you're feeding a good variety. Most people just find it easier to do prepared unless they have a good local supplier of live foods. I personally can't get much at the pet stores around here other than the standard earthworms, meal worms, crickets, or feeder fish. And most baby fish or little fish can't fit most crickets or most earthworms in their mouth, so that stuff is only useful for my larger fish like my gar, but he mainly eat's fish fillets anyway because it's cheaper and that's already what his tankmates eat.
The only live foods I stay completely away from are feeder fish from the store since they tend to carry all kinds of diseases and parasites. If I feed them live fish it's one's I've bred myself.
I culture both daphnia and scuds. But sometimes I can't feed them this everyday cause I have to let the culture recover. The other live food, which I buy, is live blackworms from the LFS. I usually buy about a tablespoon to 2 tablespoons every 3 weeks to a month. I keep them in the fridge and every 2 days I rinse them well. But I'd like to get another food in their diets cuase I don't want to depend on live food all the time. Sometimes my daphnia cultures crash and I gotta start over, and it could take time to get to a nice size before I can feed. I think I lost my daphnia culture outdoors. I am waiting to reseed in spring with the ones I got indoors.
But before that my indoor cultures crashed and I had to reseed with what I had outdoors. My scuds culture indoors has crashed once too.
But before that my indoor cultures crashed and I had to reseed with what I had outdoors. My scuds culture indoors has crashed once too.
