My new little frag buddy.
- Thread starter Bruce Spiegelman
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The little pygmy's don't have lures, but they are cute! Now that I've finally got him eating something I can start working with frozen on a feeding stick.
His head does look exactly like coraline algae lol
Mr. Ugly
Past President
I’ve kept tuberosus before.
You can transition anglers from ghost shrimp to frozen pretty easily.
Now that he’s eating live shrimp, make a feeding stick from rigid acrylic air tubing. Attach a short length of stiff fishing line.
Impale live shrimp on the line to feed your angler. You can gutload your shrimp with whatever enriched food you like.
Freeze some of the shrimp and swap them in for live ones after he associates the stick with food. He might give you a nasty look the first few times you trick him.
After he consistently takes frozen shrimp, you can swap in small pieces of cut up gel cubes or store bought shrimp.
Be careful of supermarket shrimp though. Sometimes they have a lot of added phosphate which can be bad for your fish. Got a bad batch of shrimp that did in a star and stripes puffer once. Found out later that the shrimp had a really soapy chemical taste.
You can transition anglers from ghost shrimp to frozen pretty easily.
Now that he’s eating live shrimp, make a feeding stick from rigid acrylic air tubing. Attach a short length of stiff fishing line.
Impale live shrimp on the line to feed your angler. You can gutload your shrimp with whatever enriched food you like.
Freeze some of the shrimp and swap them in for live ones after he associates the stick with food. He might give you a nasty look the first few times you trick him.
After he consistently takes frozen shrimp, you can swap in small pieces of cut up gel cubes or store bought shrimp.
Be careful of supermarket shrimp though. Sometimes they have a lot of added phosphate which can be bad for your fish. Got a bad batch of shrimp that did in a star and stripes puffer once. Found out later that the shrimp had a really soapy chemical taste.
Any idea how nutritious freshwater ghost shrimp are?
Mr. Ugly
Past President
Not as much as you’d like. Best to feed them some decent marine fish food. Perhaps dosed with Selcon even.
Wlachnit
Past President
Yeah...that's a good point about store bought shellfish. I have tried getting the phosphates out of scallops (when I cook with them) by using bicarb...not clear that that works though.
