Any place even remotely close to Montgomery with live foods?

[gflat65]

I've got to find some live foods as fast as possible for feed a new wrasse that has just ppped out of the sand for me after two weeks of no appearances. Is there any place semi locally where I can get some live foods (mysis, etc.)? Below is the post I put up earlier on the male M. bipartitus.

This big boy popped up for me this morning. He has a nice belly on him, but can't have eaten much lately. I've seen him picking, but I need to find some more live food (not an easy thing to do in Montgomery, Al...). This is the first time I've seen him since I put him in a couple of weeks ago (he went in with the female and the blue spotted leopard). I've got to figure out how to keep the purple tang off of him, though... I hope he makes it.

 

[RUGDOG]

cool wrasse, most all of the chains-petco, petsmart, pet supplies plus etc. have frozen fish foods

 

[gflat65]

He won't eat frozen yet. These guys typically need live foods for a few weeks, until they start trying non living foods. I've been lucky in the past with leopard wrasses without feeding live (plenty of food in the tanks if they get a chance to hunt-time difference from collection to the US is rough on them). I had a female bipartitus and a male M. cyanoguttatus that were swimming around for several days, looking good and appearing to eat, but they both started the death thrash a few days after they started coming out of the sand. If I can find some live foods, I think I'll have a better chance of keeping this guy alive.

 

[RUGDOG]

Good luck, I wouldnt know where to get live food period.

 

[gflat65]

I can order some tomorrow, but if I can get some sooner, all the better... I got so excited when the female and the blue spotted came out, but was crushed when they both started thrashing. I hope to avoid that with this guy, if at all possible...