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[Joshaeus]

Hi everyone! Here's a question...how large of food can pygmy sunfishes take? I can't use frozen food due to a lack of freezers my mum is ok with putting frozen fish food in, but DO have access to the following;

 

-Baby brine shrimp (my mom has no objection to brine shrimp cysts in the freezer, thankfully)

-Juvenile brine shrimp (enriched for several days with spirulina and/or astaxanthin powder)

-Walter worms (enriched with spirulina and/or astaxanthin powder)

-Freeze dried foods (I was going to rehydrate these in either a vitamin supplement or plain ol' water for 10 minutes before feeding, but still...will pygmies even eat these?)

 

How many of the above would work for pygmy sunnies? Also, would those same foods work for pygmy killifishes if I went that route instead? Thank you

[Michael Wolfe]

I have seen adults hit a whole adult size brine shrimp... it doesnt really fit in their mouth, but once comfortable, they can be greedy feeders... they hit it and shake their heads or hit it and spit it out (repeatedly) and eventually it goes down.  Smaller would be better, but they manage.

[Joshaeus]

I have seen adults hit a whole adult size brine shrimp... it doesnt really fit in their mouth, but once comfortable, they can be greedy feeders... they hit it and shake their heads or hit it and spit it out (repeatedly) and eventually it goes down.  Smaller would be better, but they manage.

Ah...guess my ideas (with the possible exception of the freeze dried food) would work, then. Thanks On an unrelated note...when they inevitably start breeding, how hard is it to sell or otherwise rehome the pygmy sunnies produced?

[gzeiger]

Maybe pitch keeping frozen food in a Tupperware or something. That really is the best solution by far.

[Michael Wolfe]

Ah...guess my ideas (with the possible exception of the freeze dried food) would work, then. Thanks On an unrelated note...when they inevitably start breeding, how hard is it to sell or otherwise rehome the pygmy sunnies produced?

Never tried... they they don't live that long even in captivity (a couple years maybe) so you need recruitment to maintain a colony.

[Joshaeus]

Maybe pitch keeping frozen food in a Tupperware or something. That really is the best solution by far.

She allowed me to keep frozen food in her freezer in the past, but was put off by the smell and appearance of the stuff when a cube was thawed out in a tupperware in the fridge.