Feeding Stations
- Thread starter Paul B
- Start date
Paul B
Premium Member
It's been a little over a month since I installed this thing and I love it. My tank has 3 bluestrip pipefish, and two mandarins along with some small clown gobies and shrimp. They all hang around this thing for a few hours that it has shrimp in it. In this tank I really don't have to supliment their diet because there are plenty of pods but I like everything to spawn and the only way fish will spawn is by eating more food then they normally can and food with a high oil content such as new born brine shrimp are even better than pods.
Two of the pipefish are to young to spawn but I feel that in a couple of weeks they will be ready. Also my female mandarin is to young so this will fatten her up.
My copperband is a regular visitor here although he gets live worms every day.
It is just another thing for me to get facinated about.
Two of the pipefish are to young to spawn but I feel that in a couple of weeks they will be ready. Also my female mandarin is to young so this will fatten her up.
My copperband is a regular visitor here although he gets live worms every day.
It is just another thing for me to get facinated about.
tebstan
New member
It's easy to hatch them! Every LFS should carry one of these:
There are lots of DIY baby brine shrimp hatchery ideas to try, if you're the DIY type. (I'm NOT, and they were still easy for me!)
I don't keep the shrimp hatchery going constantly, so I don't leave my feeder in the tank all the time. You could leave it in for quite a while, but I'd still take it out to clean it regularly.
There are lots of DIY baby brine shrimp hatchery ideas to try, if you're the DIY type. (I'm NOT, and they were still easy for me!)
I don't keep the shrimp hatchery going constantly, so I don't leave my feeder in the tank all the time. You could leave it in for quite a while, but I'd still take it out to clean it regularly.
philosophile
New member
This might be the best thing since pod condos.... Thanks for sharing!!
mwilliams62
New member
Feedin Stations
Feedin Stations
Feedin Stations
Hi Paul B. How in the world does that thing work? To seperate the shells from the hatchlings?I hatch them every day and seperate the shells in here
mwilliams62
New member
Feeding Stations
Where did you find the rigid acrylic tube that is bent like that at? All I have seen they are straight.
I don't get my hands wet, it is connected to a rigid acrylic tube so It comes right out.
I will try to get a picture of the mesh, but I just tried a few nets and found one where the shrimp can come out but not all at once, so the holes in the mesh are about the size of a baby brine shrimp.
I cut this from an old fish net.
Where did you find the rigid acrylic tube that is bent like that at? All I have seen they are straight.
Paul B
Premium Member
They hatch on the right side, then I put a black plastic over that side and slide open the door that opens a hole between the sides. The shrimp all swim through the hole to the light side. I close the door and open the valve, shrimp come out, shells stay on the dark side. I use it every day.
mwilliams62
New member
You don't by chance have a step by step on how you assemble those boxes do you? That is so cool because I have a hard time trying to get them out of the coke bottle setup without getting the shells at the same time.
Paul B
Premium Member
No step by step instructions. Just make, buy or get two containers. Make one black the other clear or white. Make a hole between the two that can be closed and opened somehow. Make a dark cover for the dark side, thats it.
Or get one rectangular container and put a barrier in the center. Paint the outside of one side black
Or get one rectangular container and put a barrier in the center. Paint the outside of one side black
Paul B
Premium Member
I am happy to say that in the 5 or 6 weeks since I installed this baby brine shrimp feeding station my skinny little female mandarin fattened up nicely and is now bordering on plump.
The first picture is when I got her, you can see her sides pinched in, especially under her dorsal fin and she resembled Twiggy.
The second picture is today.
The first picture is when I got her, you can see her sides pinched in, especially under her dorsal fin and she resembled Twiggy.
The second picture is today.
Paul B
Premium Member
The mandarins, bluestripe pipefish, copperband, cardinals and a smaller gobi eat from that feeder. I feed the rest of the fish with a baster looking thing that I made. I feed them live worms, mysis and fresh clams every day. They also get in a feeder, fish oil soaked pellets.
Similar threads
