Freeze Dried Daphnia

why not go the frozen  Daphnia its more nutritional
than freeze dried i am sure king british do a freeze dried
one from what i can remember i find the frozen is greatly
accepted by most fish you an also get frozen brine shrimp
and blood worm i get frozen bodsmid for when i am rearing
young fry they go nuts over it   

i used quite a bit of frozen food its
just for the convenience of it to be honest


i little funny story i was once making a frozen
food mix in a mug with half mug of tank water
frozen brine shrimp  Daphnia and blood worm
little did i notice that i had my coffee in the same style
mug any got a phone call come back pick up what i thought
was my coffee took a swig only to find out it was fish food mix
yuck 

Whilst I generally avoid P@H for fish, they do sell 5 packs of frozen fish food for a tenner, with each pack containing 30 cubes & their range includes Daphnia.

took a swig only to find out it was fish food mix 

  

I tried the freeze dried stuff with my Gourami's and Cardinal and Bentosi tetra's, they didn't seem impressed at all and the stuff just floated around at the top of the water before I scooped it out with a net again. 

I bought a load of freeze dried food cheaply from EBay, the blocks which you are supposed to stick to  the side of the tank. However, as Sue suggests, I soak mine in an egg cup of water. When everything is well soaked and the blocks break up, I pour the resulting "soup" into the tank and the fish go crazy for it.

Oh thanks for the soaking tip, I shall give that a go and see if that makes a difference.

I use frozen bloodworm which i put in a bit of tank water to defrost. I feed it to stanley and the corydoras using a syringe, then i can be sure they have had some, as i can literally plop it straight in front of them. Stanley gets so excited at the sight of the syringe that he will jump out of the water to get to it!!!!

 

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