I fed the 3 dwarf lions guppies, mollies and grass shrimp. They did not like swords, betas or plates. I was buying them 300 at a time. They ate them faster than I could get them to reproduce.Mollies? Even if you kept and bred them in freshwater, they'd swim around plenty long in the salt water to get eaten.
I had a smallmouth bass years ago in a 90 gallon. Most fun fish ever - he'd chase beer caps thrown across the room. Anyway I usually fed him goldfish and big freeze-dried krill but one time I stopped at the bait shop and got him some minnows. Day one he gobbled them up like a maniac. Day two on he would zoom right up to them and then stop. Must made his belly upset. He would take a dry krill before he would eat one of those again. Anyway, that's my story.occasionally gave them minnows which are bad for them. The eels come out and catch them like wild things so the lions rarely ate one. The eels did not react to the other fish that way. They might eat one if it swam right in front of them but they did not react to them being placed into the tank.
More detail on how you bred/raised Peppermint Shrimp pleaseI had ok success with peppermint shrimp but they aren't fast growers.
Well don't want to thread jack but I kept a 5 gallon bucket with tisbe pods and a mixture of live algae with lights and a bubbler. Once I added the zoestra then I would also add small strain freshly hatched baby brine shrimp. Just kept that going until they went through several stages and had big gangly legs. Then I'd transfer them to a shallow tray and continue to feed copepods and baby brine and live algae but also put in small pipe and such for settlement. I used most of them for feeding seahorse babies because larger sizes settled are only about $3.More detail on how you bred/raised Peppermint Shrimp please
Oh, hugely labor intensive then.Well don't want to thread jack but I kept a 5 gallon bucket with tisbe pods and a mixture of live algae with lights and a bubbler. Once I added the zoestra then I would also add small strain freshly hatched baby brine shrimp. Just kept that going until they went through several stages and had big gangly legs. Then I'd transfer them to a shallow tray and continue to feed copepods and baby brine and live algae but also put in small pipe and such for settlement. I used most of them for feeding seahorse babies because larger sizes settled are only about $3.
Compared to most marine fish.... No. Tisbes thrive in the bucket and bbs are easy to hatch. Many marine fish need parvo copepods which only eat Iso which is difficult to cultivate without crashes and such.Oh, hugely labor intensive then.