caferacermike
Fri, 31st Aug 2007, 07:12 PM
Can anyone explain to me why there are not any live salt water minnow type fish commonly available to buy as feeders? Today I watched my newest blue ribbon eel, ol blackie, eat my favorite scooter blenny. They had been tank mates for over a month now. I had planned to head off to buy my weekly ration of 70-100 ghost shrimps but he beat me to it. Ghost shrimp are not nutritional in any way so I gut load them before feeding them to the tank. I've been told to not feed guppies or any other freshwater fish as it can mess up our salt fish by not providing a complete nutrient and or mineral load as they would in a salt environment. I'm tired of buying scrawny little shrimps for real money knowing it's not doing as well as a small fish would. My eels have eaten every crab I ever put in the tank and have now eaten all of my smaller fish. This includes 2 blue spot jawfish at this point. I'm not complaining about my beautiful eels eating my fish, on the contrary I couldn't be any prouder of having 2 healthy and fat blue ribbon eels that allow me to watch them eat. I am complaining of the lack of quality foods to feed them.