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Hey all,
I'm an Aus native fish enthusiast. I'm writing a series of articles about keeping and producing live foods, including plants. Hints, tips, techniques, etc. I'll post the final products on this site.

I would like to include the expertise and experiences of as many people as possible so the articles can be as complete and accurate as possible.

If you have any subjects you’d like me to address, any hints, tips, recipes, scientific information, etc, please emails me at tony@gelf.com.au.
Any info would be great. Even if it's just a story, or a hint or anything.

To make things easier for me, I'll be mostly monitoring one main forum, though I will continue to check all. This will be AusFishForum, click here to go to my article. This by no way reflects any association or financial kickback from this or any other site. It is merely the site I used first and most, and as an Aus native fish keeper, is my logical choice.
Don't pannic, all articles will be posted here too.
Cheers
 
Hiya Gelf.
 
Well I have thought about it and as far as raising food I believe there are far better sources of info out there than me.
I will share a safer way to keep feeder fish for use.
Start by getting a pair of translucent 44g storage tubs and place them in an out of the wat place that stay around room temp. Put a filter rated for a 50-60g tank on each one and fill them to just over 1/2 full with salted water (2 teaspoons aquarium salt per gallon of water), seed the filter media from established ones then add two weeks worth of fish, up to 200 guppies, or 100 mollies/ roseyreds/ small goldfish. Wait two weeks then start feeding them to your fish from just one tank. Use the time to feed the feeders a quality diet and to ckeck for obvious health problems. When the first tank is almost empty replace the salted water and the fish you have used and start using the other one, By the time that one is used up and ready to refill the first one is ready to use again. This method prevents the introduction of ick, clostia, velvet, most flukes, funguses, and protozoals into your tank, and makes using feeders much safer.
 
Hey guys,
I've got another Live Food production article to proofing stage.
GRINDAL WORMS
Please take the time to read and let me know of any improvements, etc so I can include them.
I'd also appreciate it if people could check out the DROSOPHILLA FRUIT FLY article, and do the same.
I have a couple of other articles under construction at the mo.

To check these articles please go to http://www.gelf.com.au/fish/index.html, then click on 'Live Food production articles' on the right hand side of the screen. You'll find all the articles under the headding 'Live Food Production Articles:'.
The articles are in .pdf format.

Cheers
Tony
 
Two things I can mention from experience on grindal worms, white worms (their larger cousin) as well, don't use crushed rye grain or rye bread crumbs, I have had the worms die from it, and wax paper works fine to collect them.
 
Just out of curiosity, what do you feed ostracods two? Not many fish seem to like them.
 
Mate, I've never had them. Though I've been told they are a great 2nd food that is easily bread.
I keep rainbows and blue-eyes and I'm sure they'd love these little guys. Rainbows seem capable of eating pretty much anything that moves.
Have you got seed shrimp? I'm keen to get a starter culture.
Cheers
Tony
 
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