Need Live Brine ASAP!-Finicky Fish!!!!

[mattj206]

Need Help!

I made the mistake of buying fish I didnt know about after some bad advice, and they wont eat much...

I need live brine shrimp - I think they will go for that.

Does anyone hatch live brine? Would u sell me some untill I can hatch some eggs.

Help me save the fish-THX

 

[mfinn]

Don't know where you can find live brine, but have you tried Rods Food?

 

[akunochi]

Wild side in Puyallup (hate to say it) usually has live brine.

 

[balogh03]

Can you tell us what you are trying to feed??? This will help a lot.

-augustus

 

[mattj206]

Purple Queen Anthias Group. They eat a little cyclopseze, swim out in the open, and live with a hearty trio of sunburst anthias.


Lesson learned. Always ask ur LFS to feed before u buy-to make sure. Also do a little reading before jumping on a fish purchase.

 

[johnpeezy]

Midway Tropical fish and Pets in DesMoines should have live brine

 

[1fishkeeper]

I think I seen them at Blue Sierra last weekend but Im not 100% sure.

 

[SeattlesDarko]

Blue Sierra has it in Issaquah, but they have downsized I would call but I bet they still have it but it was cheep from what I remember too.

 

[Inconservatory]

+1 on Blue Sierra, at least they had it before their big split. Where did you guys these anthias?

 

[rayjay]

http://www.livebrineshrimp.com

 

[ac7av]

Just get some eggs when you pick up some live stuff later. I buy the eggs in the little 2oz bottle and it last a long time. Put some in a clear glass container like a cheep vase or something like that and float it in the tank some ware with water from you tank. I have two in mine and they hatch in less then 12 hours and by 24 hours they are all hatched and I dump in 12 hours intervals so they have 24 on a glass when dumped and the fish love it. They go nuts. It’s a sure way to get picky fish to eat. I mix in the regular food and then dump the brine shrimp on top. Its amazing how they start eating things you want them to that way.

 

[arman]

I was in Blue Sierra a week or two ago and they had a ten gallon tank full of live brine for sale

 

[mattj206]

Success!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not with brine shrimp...Everyone is out of live brine..

But!!!! After trying every little food I could find, I finally found 1 they enjoy eating....prawn roe!!!! same thing my sunburst anthias had to start with.

Im hatching some baby brine for variety. They are hatching now - ready tomarrow morning..

I had written these fish off after trying about 8 different foods-only very limited success with cyclopseze.

This feels good.

 

[ac7av]

That’s really good to know.
I’ve had a few fish over the years go because I could not get them to eat too and it suck every time. The brine shrimp trick has really helped. I will keep the prawn roe on my list of things. Where did you get that?