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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Growing Brine Shrimp to Adulthood
Summary: ... and buying them
Message-ID: <2240@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 88 03:23:06 GMT
References: <8072@reed.UUCP> <2200@gryphon.CTS.COM> <249@bacchus.DEC.COM>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <249@bacchus.DEC.COM> gringort@decwrl.UUCP (Joel Gringorten) writes:
>In article <2200@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) 
>writes:
>>	[concerning brine shrimp]
>>Besides, you can buy 1000's of the buggers for $0.79, so why bother ?
>>
>
>Brine shrimp in the SF Bay area has become incredibly difficult to find
>lately.  What little information I've been able to gather is that some
>goverment body has decreed that removing brine shrimp from the ocean (bay?)
>could be having environmental impact.  Based on this, they revoked the
>local suppliers permit for 90% of his shrimp gathering sites.
>
>Can anybody add-to/substantiate/deny any of this?  

Brine shrimp are still plentifull and cheap in the L.A. area.

>Can anybody suggest an alternate easily obtainable food source for picky
>eaters?  In particular I have a new juneville Emperator Angel that seems
>to want only live brine shrimp.  (I understand that they eat live coral
>polyps in the wild, but we won't go into that).

Well, there are a few things you can culture - wingless fruit flies,
white worms, daphnia. They all have their drawbacks. The flies
eventually revert back to the winged variety unless you keep them
cool, I've been told, making you real unpopular with whoever
you live. The white worms also like it cool and are rather rich.
Daphnia arn't a great source of nutrition. And of course, none
of them live in saltwater. Sigh.

I did read once about a finicky red-sea butterfly that was persuaded
to eat by taking a small piece of (brain ? rose ?) coral and putting
some frozen brine shrimp on it, letting it dry a bit, and placing
it in the tank.  It was supposed to simulate live coral polyps,
and apparantly worked.

Nice choice of angels. I never could make up my mind which was
my favorite, the Imperial or the navarchus.

-- 
      "...and before too long I might, see those flashing red lights" 
                          richard@gryphon.CTS.COM 
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