Live brine shrimp in Alexandria or Nova?

[A.ocellaris]

Hi!

 

So it looks like that my anthia only eats live food

[hlem]

Centreville Aquarium. 

 

may mix in live with frozen, and eventually just frozen?

[Jon Lazar]

Adult brine shrimp have very little nutrition on their own.  But you can add something nutritious like Selcon or phytoplankton to their water container, and the brine shrimp will filter the Selcon out of the water and eat it.  Then feed the brine shrimp to your anthia, and she'll get all the Selcon inside the brine shrimp.

 

I would do exactly as hlem suggested to get her onto frozen food.

[cpu933k]

Try Quantum Reefs in Springfield.

[KingOfAll_Tyrants]

No go for QR. Just called them. :(

[A.ocellaris]

It’s hard when you have a few other fish in a qt tank. I think ill have to feed adult brine shrimp until I can isolate her when the treatment is over.

[KingOfAll_Tyrants]

Here’s an online source that I’ve used before:

 

http://www.aquaculturestore.com/Salt-Water-Invertebrates/

 

It’s expensive, and I would order mysids rather than brine cysts. But maybe it would work?

[A.ocellaris]

Thank you KingOfAll_Tyrants! I'll try to get some of those if she does not start to eat frozen. A LFS gave me a sample of Rod's food and I am mixing in some live brine shrimp. It looks like she is eating more than just the live brine shrimp with this food.... (it's also hard to tell since she is so fast and sometimes spits out the food she doesnt like.)

[rt502]

May want to try LRS. Have had some finicky fish and they all went for it.