Another live food option for your Predator tank..

Hello to all ... I seen a posting on here somewhere and basicaly was not good to feed fresh water fish to saltwater predator's. I to agree due to the lack of proper nutrients that silver sides and other prepared foods have. On that note i found a link that people have taken live mollie's (fresh water/brackish fish) and slowly acclimated them to 100% salt and well now there are Salt water mollies.. With feeding them salt water food i do not know if in time they will slowly carry the proper nutrient level that the silver sides carry. I am sure there is probaly much debate gonna happen here, Just thought i would share the info i found in hopes maybe to find another healthy alternitive live food for the finicky predator live eater's.


Link:Animal Library: Fish: Mollies


Good Luck..!!

 

I have one in our tank now. It will eat anything that goes into the tank and picks at the algae. Not raising mine to be a feeder fish, just put him in there for kicks. Our LFS sometimes put them in saltwater tanks to clean up the algae. Mine doesn't really clean up the tank because I feed it.

 

what i was feeding the lionfish at a client's we had a 20g long that we used to acclimate them to SW, think we kept it at 1.023

 

I use a mix of silversides and Smelts ( smelts are MUCH cheaper and larger). I buy my silversides online, they are about 1/2 price and if you order enough the shipping does not add that much.

 

That's kewl that every one so far has great luck with feeding there Predators on there choice of foods.. i just was researching for funn and figured i'd share the info...


Good Luck..!!

 

i would like to add my opinion on the feeding of freshwater mollies to predatory saltwater stock i myself keep trigger fish and nothing else i consider there diet a mixed and varied one consisting of both frozen and fresh foodstuffs all of which are dead i might add and all my fish are happy and healthy and dont seem to me to be lacking in any way of a vitamin deficiency because they are not feed live food iv heard all the arguments re this topic as to what these fish eat in there natural environments but my fish are kept in a tank .a somewhat artificial environment id love to hear other users views on the feeding of live freshwater fish .to a saltwater fish am i missing something here. i hope to hear some constructive and interesting viewpoints on this sorry for rambling on but its a good topic .ps i dont do it and am against it for the fish i keep.......

 

while mollies certainly are better the goldfish. one of the reasons live feeders are bad is the may carry parasites. i wouldnt recommend live feeding unless you breed your own feeders, even then a formulated diet is probably better

 

+1. The problem isn't nutrients, its the parasites that come from live feeding, which is even greater when introducing FW feeders.