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From: dalka@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Ken Dalka)
Newsgroups: rec.pets,alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: Re: Fish parasites?
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Date: 18 Feb 88 15:12:14 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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> Live food is a bummer unless your fish absolutely require it, and then
> one has to be extremely careful to monitor the tank for parasites and
> other undesirables that are introduced into the tank with the food.

This is an interesting point that it might be good to hear peoples
opinions about. I used to use live food and had an outbreak of some
type of bacterial disease. Since that time, I've refused to use any
live food in my tanks. I use quite a bit of frozen food, especially
for the salt water fish and have never had a problem with disease
since. The types I use are brine shimp, glassworms, bloodworms (these
smell really bad so I don't use them anymore to save my nose), prime
reef, formula I and II, krill and some special invertebrate mixture.
I don't use them all at the same time, and I don't even keep them all
at the same time, I vary what I buy from time to time. Anybody, want
to tout the pros of live food?

One possibility of live food that I have considered but not done is to
keep a few guppies in with some of the more difficult to keep fish.
It sounds terrible but the constant influx of young from the guppies
could keep the other fish happy. 
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					Ken Dalka (Bell Labs)
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