Live foods how to ....

[gelf]

Hey all,

I was planning to write a series of articles on keeping and producing live foods, including plants. Hints, tips, techniques, etc. I'll post the final products on this site.

I would like to include the expertise and experiences of as many people as possible so the articles can be as complete and accurate as possible.

If you have any subjects you’d like me to address, any hints, tips, recipes, scientific information, etc, please emails me at tony@gelf.com.au.

I was thinking of structuring the articles as such:
* Name (common and sci)
* Complete description, including scientific info
* Nutritional analysis
* Suitable for:
* Culture methods (medium recipes, temps, etc)
* Harvesting
* Any warnings or cautions (both to humans and fish)

The articles so far will be:
* Infusoria
* Green water
* Moia (sp?)
* Daphnia
* Cyclops
* Microworms
* Blood Worms
* Mosquito larvae
* Ants
* Grindal Worms
* White Worms
* Black works
* Mealworms
* Crickets
* Cockroaches
* Fruit fly (Drosophila), including vestigial wing
* Fruit fly (the larger species)
* House flies
* Rams-horn Snails
* Garden snails
* Filamentous green algae
* Duckweed (Wolfia sp.)
* Duckweed (Spirodela sp.)

If you have others you’d like me to include, just let me know.
Please pm me as I have this listed on several sites.

[Ben]

Tony,

Thats a great idea!
it would be excellent to have Infomation on how to produce various live foods in Australia.

i look forward to the finished articles.

Cheers
Ben

[Ben]

Tony,

Another interesting live food which i have cultivated in the past is silk worms. Not a suitable live food for discus but excellent for large cichlids and other large fish species.

Ben

[marg]

What a fantastic idea Tony. I'm sure once you complete the list all our Discus will have great new diets!!

Regards,

Marg.

[gelf]

Thanks for the support guys.
Ben, got a production method for me?

[Merrilyn]

Tony that's a wonderful idea. Something like this will be invaluable for the members. :P

[Ben]

Tony,
give me some time mate but i will be able to help you out with a few of the live foods i have produced in the past.

cheers
Ben

[gelf]

No other interest out there? From all the forums I've had lots of supporting comments but very little actual input.
Any info would be great. Even if it's just a story, or a hint or anything.
To make things easier for me, I'll be mostly monitoring one main forum, though I will continue to check all. This will be AusFishForum, click here to go to my article (http://www.ausfishforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60978&highlight=). This by no way reflects any association or financial kickback from this or any other site. It is merely the site I used first and most, and as an Aus native fish keeper, is my logical choice.
Don't pannic, all articles will be posted here too.
Cheers

[Ben]

Tony,
I have sent you a PM with all the tips on breeding house fly maggots.

cheers
Ben

[gelf]

OK, the first article is well on it's way.
I've started with Drosophila Fruit Fly.
Download the file here: http://www.gelf.com.au/fish/drosophila_fruit_fly.pdf. It's 135KB.
If you have any comments, info to include, or photos, please post, email, pm me. Comments on layout are welcome too.
Let me know how you'd like to be referenced, anonymous is fine too.
Cheers
Tony

[Proteus]

Excellent... well done Tony, great job

[Ben]

Great Article Tony!

Keep us posted as more articles get finished!

cheers
Ben

[gelf]

Hey guys,
I've got another Live Food production article to proofing stage.
GRINDAL WORMS
Please take the time to read and let me know of any improvements, etc so I can include them.
I'd also appreciate it if people could check out the DROSOPHILLA FRUIT FLY article, and do the same.
I have a couple of other articles under construction at the mo.

To check these articles please go to http://www.gelf.com.au/fish/index.html, then click on 'Live Food production articles' on the right hand side of the screen. You'll find all the articles under the headding 'Live Food Production Articles:'.
The articles are in .pdf format.

Cheers
Tony

[gelf]

OK, done some more work on the list.
Check out http://www.gelf.com.au/fish/production_articles_index.html and see what you reccon.
I know things are moving slow, but spare time to wrute these is a little rare at the mo.
Cheers
Tony

[gelf]

OK guys, it's been slow comming....
I've got microworms up and ready for review:
http://www.gelf.com.au/fish/production_articles_index.html
Cheers
Tony