Frozen or Live?

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sAroock

sAroock

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Live brine vs. Frozen brine, is one more beneficial than the other?
im feeding frozen brine shrimp to my cichlids at rare times.

Im wanting to brood live brine, but dont want to go though the trouble if there's no differ.
scratch out the threat that Live can have diseases, and should i make brine feeding more frequent (frequent will be.. say x2 per week)?

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I much prefer live hatched Baby Brine Shrimp over frozen for new born fry... I've had much better survival rates / growth rates using live...

But if you are talking feeding chunks of frozen brine to juvenal or adult fish, then do not bother hatching Live Brine. They are so tiny that once a fish is more than 5/8" (1.5 cm) they won't be able to efficiently eat them.
 
Yeah with fry I do live but is prefer frozen for bigger fish

don't forget that even I'd you rinse very thoroughly there'll till be salt jn it if you dodecide to do live
 
^ if that's the case go frozen, don't waste your time.
 
Adult brine shrimp often repture during the freezing process, thus losing pretty much all their nutritional value other than roughage (at least they used to, haven't used any recently for this reason so they might have figured it out by now).
 
sAroock;4137094; said:
Live brine vs. Frozen brine, is one more beneficial than the other?
im feeding frozen brine shrimp to my cichlids at rare times.

Im wanting to brood live brine, but dont want to go though the trouble if there's no differ.
scratch out the threat that Live can have diseases, and should i make brine feeding more frequent (frequent will be.. say x2 per week)?

:confused:
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Yeah, I only use BBS(baby brine shrimp) for fry feedings......I used too hatch my own, untill one day I found this localshop that sells freshly hatched shrimp.........
 
sAroock;4137708; said:
oh nah, not frys, im talking about adult ones. hatching baby Brine shrimp is easy, but i want to get them to adult brine then feed.
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It is somewhere between difficult and impossible to raise live hatched baby brine shrimp to adulthood in typcial home aquaria...

I'm sure live would be better, but you'll have to travel to the ocean to get em...
 
nc_nutcase;4139678; said:
It is somewhere between difficult and impossible to raise live hatched baby brine shrimp to adulthood in typcial home aquaria...

I'm sure live would be better, but you'll have to travel to the ocean to get em...
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brine shrimp dont live in the ocean beacause theyre eggs need to dry up in order to hatch plus theyd all be eaten within minutesh aha
 
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