I have a couple of tanks some with Scarlet badis and one with a juvenile peacock eel. I would love to put something in the tanks or in my desktop palu that would continue to breed easily and be a source of live food.
I'm thinking scuds or black worms?
I would love some feedback on this. Do these two breed readily and will they be appropriate food sources.
i put this in inverts becuase the food is an invert? this may be the wrong thread...
Scuds will survive in the tanks probably but won't multiply too much without a portion of the tank set aside to provide them protection from the fish. Blackworms will slowly get eaten to nothing and need to be replenished unless likewise protected. Daphnia and copepods are also good choices with the same caveat. If you want to set up your other tank just for food, all four can be kept together pretty easily. Just put in a sponge filter, some fine substrate and take care of it like a regular fish tank except leave more organic matter inside. Don't expect to supply all the food for the fish from a small tank, the bigger the food tank the better.
Disclosure: I haven't kept them since my pair died of old age a year or so ago.
But I kept seed shrimp and grindal worms (grindals weren't kept in the tank, though). Both were really enjoyed by the fish - especially when near breeding.
Would a 20 gallon heavily planted tank with a betta be okay to keep the main culture, or would the presence of even those two fish be enough to demloish the culture?
Have any snails? Mine loves eating snail eggs. I feed it blood worms and he just ignores it and goes hunting for snail eggs. It also allows me to have snails in my Rili tank without the population growing out of control.
The 20 long has both Mts and pond snails. It has a sandy bottom and lots of wtaer sprite. It would be a great plave for me to have all my live food cultures if i knew that the betta wouldn't eat them all. I guess i'll just have to try it out and see.
I would say in a 20 any fish at all will destroy the culture (or at least keep it small enough it will be no use in feeding anything else), though I'm sure this must work at some combination of tank size and number of fish.
Oh dear. Well, I'll have to move some things around then. My betta is a gorgeous boy, but I can see him being a glutton for sure. lol
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