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Feeding live brine shrimp to gouramis, tetras and other fish in jungle style aquarium

60 gallon tropical freshwater planted set-up with 2 pearl gouramis, 2 dwarf gouramis, 6 neon tetras, 6 white tip fin tetras and two flying foxes. I am thinking about maybe getting a few more but maybe its getting full.

10 Points for best answer… Do i really have to feed high quality food to Fish to breed them?

This is just and edited version of my question, but.. doFish such as bettas (siamese fighting fish). Do they really need high quality foods such as brine shrimp if i want them to breed. I usually feed my betta fish betta fish pellets. If i wanted to breed them, couldnt i just feed them the pellets. (by the way i already know how to breed betta fish, im just asking if it’s ok to feed freshwater fish their flake
and/or pellet food in order for them to spawn and if they will still spawn if i feed them their flake/ pellet foods)

What is the best way to feed my fish…?

frozen brine shrimp. It’s for my saltwater fish. For my freshwater I take a bowl of their tank water and melt the cube down and pour it in. I wasn’t sure if it is the same for saltwater or not.
I feed them flakes and pellets as well I just had some left over from rasing guppy fry and thought that they might like a treat.

Brine shrimp? Easy peasy for a 6 year old.Did you know this? A question for all fish keepers and breeders.?

I have been to loads of fish shops in search of live food for my breeding of betta splendens, but it seemed that they only stocked them on a very random basis.I replaced live food with boiled earthworm cut up very finely (it works great), but i went to all the hassle of finding or digging them up , scalding them with water , cutting them with a scissors and freezing them for later…. and being always told by my fiancee that I was disgusting. One day my 6 year old daughter returned from a toy shop down the road with “sea monkeys”? I never heard of them either, on close inspection they turned out to be brine shrimp that a child could harvest and keep them for a guaranteed 2 years, they multiply or breed or whatever readily…..I couldnt believe it, happy days, so its the toy shop for pet food and pet shop for pet toys ( i have dogs too).

live food for my catfish?

I have 2 pictus catfish and I am wondering what kind of live food I can find that is freshwater. I went and bought brine shrimp and realized afterwards that it was saltwater. If i were to get more brine shrimp, is there any way to get them out of the saltwater and into the freshwater without harming the fish?