eating habits

how do i get my fish to eat more aggressively ? i was told the fish are thought this at a young age. but how do i do it ?

eat more aggressivly? Are we talking about bristlenose here or other fish. Some fish are violent when they eat, my oscars will destroy a shrimp if one is silly enough to go for a wander in the open and not stay in the plant work. Bristlenose on the other hand are very placid eaters. They just munch away on whatever there is around.

my angel fish. i know some of them are passive and some are aggressive. im nto lookin for carnage or anything. just want them to eat better. some are not gettin enough food....

angel fish are normally pretty good eaters, maybe feed them some live food (brine shrimp are my fav) and see if that helps.

i cant do live brine shrimp since my wife wont allow me to raise them in the house and no one around here sales them.

Down2Earth wrote:

i cant do live brine shrimp since my wife wont allow me to raise them in the house and no one around here sales them.

SERIOUS

If we run of of live Brine at work there would be a riot! I would have thought there would have been someone locally.

Alternativly, be sneaky about it. Claim you are getting into 'sea monkeys'

http://www.amazon.com/Schylling-Sea-Monkeys-Ocean-Zoo/dp/B001CBZXEE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1331777979&sr=8-1

its just another tiny tank and they are cool...then one day half of them disapear, then they breed up and then half diapear again. "I have no idea where they are going, but my the Angel fish looks happy"

how do u breed them ? if i can do this in a 10 gallon im down. i have an empty one on the floor right now.

like what all do i need other then the eggs.

this is basically the method i used a few years ago

http://home.coqui.net/menace/artemias.htm

basically you need container, salt (marine salt) and the eggs.

mix up to a salinity of about 35 salinty and add some airation or slight water movement and off you go.

Can you get any live foods locally

Food that moves will often tempt poor feeders to eat and once they are eating then they soon start taking anything you offer.

im lookin into breeding my own brine shrimp now.

in my area there is only 3 shops and non of them sell live foods.. only frozen.

i am thinkni about mass producing brine shrimp and selling them locally.

mass producing is a bit different. Our supplier in the shop has a massive pond he uses to breed them in. Might not be able to mass produce them in a small tank. Though they are easy enough to raise. and in a packet of eggs you get 1000s of them. sell the $5 a serve and you are laughing!

i was reading something about a guy growing them out in a big tub. like 60 gallons or something. no moving water. just a clear plastic cover. he grows small amounts of brine shrimp inside and as the babys hatch. he dumps the left over eggs and some of the shrimp into this bucket. they reproduce in this bucket and he gets more bang for his buck. not only does he have babys freshly hatched but he has a breading colony out side making more for his older fish.