> hi michael...
> i would try to find a bigger tank. 5 gallons is kinda small but would be
good
> for the grass shrimp to live in w/o being eaten. i have not had long
success
> w/ grass shrimp... tho i will be looking at a tank and see one moving
about
> that i put in several months ago. i have seen the grass shrimp eating
frozen
> blood worms also. they seem to do best in a heavily vegetated tank, and is
> where i scoop them from a vegetated lake.
> chopped live red wigglers are a great start for new natives. nothing can
> resist them. next is frozen blood worms. my standard meal for darters.
next
> is freeze dried bloodworms... good for conveinence and established fish
> including darters. sunfish will eventually eat just about anything tho.
> floating koi pellets and turtle food is something i feed my sunfish, along
> with bugs and larva i find about. i have a compost bin which is good for
> producing worms and larva.
> all my fish seem to reject dried tubiflex worms. the cube will end up just
> floating and fouling the water w/ fungus. the only thing of seen really
going
> after dried tubiflex cubes are snails.
> get a small tub of red wigglers from a bait store. keep it in the fridge.
> pull out one or two, rinse the dirt off and snip them into little pieces
> using tweezers and sissors. ouch. watch them get eaten pronto. dont dirty
the
> water w/ uneaten food tho.
> after a time you can go to dried food for the blue spotts and most
natives.
> treat them every once in a while tho to some frozen worms ( blacks,
mosquito,
> glass, blood, etc worms and fresh chopped live red wigglers.
> casper
>
>
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