Bay fish for aquarium food?

[glarior]

Anyone ever caught bay fish along Texas and used them as fish food? I have sharks, ray, eel and thought if I caught legal bait fish I could add them to the tank for a possible meal... something that is more like the wild since they are in captivity.

I also thought why do most people feed their fish krill and not shrimp with the peel on?

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[Mike]

I have fed the FOWLR with damsels and shrimp from the coast before and not had any issues. Will be interesting to see what other people think.

[Sherita]

I use a push net to catch grass shrimp by the pound, and meat scraps from specks and gafftop (leftover after I clean them) are always a big hit with my tanks. The wrasses enjoy live peppermint shrimp as well. And cast netting for piggy perch or croaker will net some good tank food as well.

[glarior]

That's some good news for me.

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[ramsey]

Do you think you'd have to worry about introducing parasites like this? Maybe it's less of a concern if you freeze it first? I would think live shrimp would be less risky, but I wonder about live bait fish.

[Sherita]

The only thing I've ever fed while live was the peppermint shrimp. Everything else is packaged up and frozen. The smaller baitfish and the fish flesh are processed into homemade fish food, then frozen. Like you, I suspect that the freezing does away with any parasites.

[glarior]

Freezing the food will kill parasites. As for live I would quarantine everything and see what happens.

Wish I could get damsels here. I had a big damsel that attacked everything until it messed with the eel... eel was happy and damsel had a bad day lol

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