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Unread 05/12/2015, 02:16 AM   #24
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Second this. I made two. My mandarins are fat. And so are Paul's pipe fish. It is easy once you get a routine going.

Shelley
Only problem is that brine shrimp have little nutritional value - even with enrichment.

The ideal food for pipefish are copepods and tigger pods are actually very easy to culture. Way less trouble than hatching, separating and enriching Artemia.
By now I feed all my fish live tigger pods at least once a day. You don't need to enrich them and you can't overfeed and mess up the water quality like with frozen foods.
And no feeder needed either.


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