Frozen Food

[Curtis]

What frozen foods do you feed your loaches and where do you purchase the food?

[Emma Turner]

Hi Curtis,

My lot get the following frozen foods (in addition to dry foods):

White mosquito larvae
Brineshrimp with garlic
Brineshrimp with spirulina
Krill
Mysis
Chopped cockle
Chopped mussel
Prawns (salad shrimp, which I buy from the supermarket chiller in a big pack and which I freeze at home) - some are chopped for the smaller loaches, others are left whole for the bigger ones.

For really small loaches, I use the following combination:

Baby brineshrimp
Cyclops
Daphnia

Where I get most of these from is probably quite obvious! If you have a lot of fish to feed, you can sometimes get large slabs of certain foods, rather than a pack of little individual cubes.

Emma

[jwyfk]

Emma,
I've never thought of trying frozen krill. Are they able to eat them, shell and all? Also, I'm currently feeding freeze dried mysis that I rehydrate with vitamins and garlic. Do you think it would be beneficial to give frozen mysis a try? One more thing...I'm curious why you don't have frozen bloodworms on your list. They're not really worms, but midge fly larvae. Don't they sell these where you live?

[Emma Turner]

Hi jwyfk,
It's a personal decision but I choose not to use bloodworm as it is a very rich food. Plenty of LOL members do use it though. The krill we get varies in size, sometimes it is about the size you'd expect for Mysis, other times almost as large as a small salad shrimp. My big clowns can handle that no problem, but it should be chopped up a bit for smaller loaches. I'd definitely recommend giving both frozen Mysis and krill a go if you haven't already, and if the krill appears a bit large, just chop it up a little before feeding.
Emma

[Graeme McKellar]

My loaches just love Hikari Krill - they seem to like it more than Mysis.
I only feed worms twice a week maximum - one frozen bloodworms and one live blackworms which they really enjoy and search the tank for the next hour or so just incase one escaped. They also just love live mosquito wrigglers as a treat just once a week - 300+ gone in less than a minute.
I have some very spoilt and happy loaches.
Cheers Graeme.

[Martin Thoene]

Here's my solution:

http://www.loaches.com/articles/home-co ... n-fishfood

Martin.

[jwyfk]

I look forward to trying Krill and Mysis. Thank you both!

Graeme, I envy where you live! I'd go catch my own Rainbowfish!

Martin, that looks like the ultimate sacrifice to make for your loaches. I don't think I'd ever want to use my kitchen again. Maybe this would be a good way for me to lose weight and give my fish the best nutrition at the same time.

[aegolius]

A nice recipe there, Martin. I may have to try it.

Here's my recipe:

- handful of shrimp
- handful of pollock
- handful of peas
- little carrot
- little piece of banana
- 1 tbs of lingonberries
- gelatin