Feeding live food when on holiday
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08 Jun 2019 17:12 #1
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I am not sure if anyone will answer this, but thought I will try anyway!
Does anyone have any good ideas of how to feed live food to your fish when you are away?
I can feed flake/pellet easily, but want to feed live.
So I need to somehow keep the live food alive, and drop it into the tank each day.
I was thinking of small food such as daphnia, mosquito larvae, brine shrimp etc. or even white worm or grindal worms.
I would love to feed this live as frozen will be impossible!!
Any thoughts?
Does anyone have any good ideas of how to feed live food to your fish when you are away?
I can feed flake/pellet easily, but want to feed live.
So I need to somehow keep the live food alive, and drop it into the tank each day.
I was thinking of small food such as daphnia, mosquito larvae, brine shrimp etc. or even white worm or grindal worms.
I would love to feed this live as frozen will be impossible!!
Any thoughts?
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09 Jun 2019 16:15 #2
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I was wondering if I could use a large syringe filled with live food and water and fix up a Arduino to a stepper motor and push a bit out each day.
I just wonder how long they would stay alive in a syringe??
I just wonder how long they would stay alive in a syringe??
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10 Jun 2019 12:20 #3
by Dihanio (Paulie Hanlon)
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Hi Jon, you'd need a pretty big syringe 
Even so, I wouldn't like pushing the dirty water from the live food into the tank. Obviously would get diluted, but you don't know what nasties might be involved

Even so, I wouldn't like pushing the dirty water from the live food into the tank. Obviously would get diluted, but you don't know what nasties might be involved
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10 Jun 2019 17:15 #4
by Liam29 (Liam Ó Donohoe)
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Put in lots of black worms they will come out of the substrate for oxygen and your fish will pick them off
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10 Jun 2019 21:24 #5
by damofoxo (Damien Fox)
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What fish and how many of them are you looking to feed?like Liam said the black worms will hide and surface every so often.
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11 Jun 2019 15:57 #6
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It’s a tank with dwarf puffer fish in it, so they need the live food.
Not sure if the would like picking out the worms from the sand though, which is why I was looking for something to feed them the smaller food.
Thanks for suggestions so far though
Not sure if the would like picking out the worms from the sand though, which is why I was looking for something to feed them the smaller food.
Thanks for suggestions so far though
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