How do you feed your aquarium fish frozen brine shrimp

This has always been a bit of a challenge for me because I end up wasting half the shrimp in my tank. But today I think I have figured out a better way for me to feed my fish frozen brine shrimp without waste.

I add aquarium water into a squeeze bottle then drop a cube cut form the pack into the bottle, the kind of bottle that is used for ketchup and mustard. They look like this kind on amazon - squeeze bottles. Only the bottle is brand new and never used. I let it set and thaw for awhile.

Squeeze in some shrimp, watch my fish eat those, then squeeze in a little more watching to see the second round is all eaten. If I do it my old way of dumping the shrimp into the tank using a net, then to much ends up in the tank that goes uneaten.

I rinse the bottle out sending the uneaten shrimp down the drain.

 

Sounds like a good method. I don't have to worry about any uneaten shrimp, my fish make short work of a cube.

 

Sounds like a good method. I don't have to worry about any uneaten shrimp, my fish make short work of a cube.

I am sure, lol You must have a lot of fish in your tank(s).

But right now I only have a light stock with two small Angels and ten Red Eye Tetras in my 55 gallon. I have just started stocking it taking my time to find the right types of bottom feeders, etc. I used to have a larger stock of inhabitants in my 29 gallon but still an entire cube was to much for them to eat.

 

I am sure, lol You must have a lot of fish in your tank(s).

But right now I only have a light stock with two small Angels and ten Red Eye Tetras in my 55 gallon. I have just started stocking it taking my time to find the right types of bottom feeders, etc. I used to have a larger stock of inhabitants in my 29 gallon but still an entire cube was to much for them to eat.

Yep, I have more than a dozen mature Rainbowfish which are ravenous eaters. Don't actually give them brine shrimp very often nowadays, they seem to prefer Mysis Shrimp and I think it's a better size for them too.

 

I hold the frozen cube with tongs/tweezers and let the fish nip at it. As it thaws I wiggle the cube so some of the shrimp float off so the less aggressive feeders can eat.

 

I thaw it in tank water then feed with a turkey baster, disburse it a bit and squirt some down above the sand for the Corys.

 

I thaw it in tank water then feed with a turkey baster, disburse it a bit and squirt some down above the sand for the Corys.

That is a good idea. I have a top/canopy that I build for my 55g and I hate to take it off all the time. So I installed a feeding tube using 2" pvc pipe. The back of the canopy is open so I reach around the back with a Meat Injector similar to a large syringe sticking it down beside the opening for the intake of the canister filter. Pull water out with it and use that in the squeeze bottle with the shrimp. Then I squeeze the shrimp in water down the pvc pipe to feed the fish.

Meat Injector Syringe

 

That is a good idea. I have a top/canopy that I build for my 55g and I hate to take it off all the time. So I installed a feeding tube using 2" pvc pipe. The back of the canopy is open so I reach around the back with a Meat Injector similar to a large syringe sticking it down beside the opening for the intake of the canister filter. Pull water out with it and use that in the squeeze bottle with the shrimp. Then I squeeze the shrimp in water down the pvc pipe to feed the fish.

Meat Injector Syringe

That a cool set up!

 

I just take 8 cubes out cut them in half store in a ziplock in the freezer.

I have a 4 ounce cup with a 10 ml syringe dedicated tank equipment.
Time for feeding, just 30 MLS of tank with half a cube to thaw for a few mins.
Then I feed by squirting the brine where I want with the syringe.

Done

 

I thaw it in tank water then feed with a turkey baster, disburse it a bit and squirt some down above the sand for the Corys.

This is exactly what I do. Otherwise, the tiger barb gang would inhale it all and the Queen loaches would get nothing!

 

I only have a few danios and alot of dwarf crays so I thaw a cube, add enough with a pipette until the danios are full (they do get full) then save the rest for an afternoon feeding. The crays and snails mop up the rest. (The danios will scoop some off the bottom if still hungry).