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Re: q about live adult brine shrimp as stable diet for loaches

Posted By: BB <nettech@bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tuesday, 21 March 2000, at 10:11 p.m.

In Response To: q about live adult brine shrimp as stable diet for loaches (Tony Tejavej)

Exclusively I would wager this is not suitable. Newly hatched cysts would be great for small specimes because at this point they are mostly protien. Once they grow the protien content is greatly reduced unless they are being enriched or bathed in something similar to selcon I think. As a whole I think some species require more protien then others but veggie should be on the diet reg