Hello friends!

My name is Ruben, I'm 28 years old and I'm form Lisbon, Portugal.

Unfortunately, I cannot write in French... I've studied french for 3 years but I was not the best student...

However, I can understand a little of what's written in French.

I speak portuguese, spanish, english and I'm learning german at the moment.

I'm a killifish maniac (APK) though I've been keeping all sort of fishes at home since my 12 years old.

I'm very interested in keeping live food at home (I've kept daphnias, microworms, grindal worms, tubifex, black mosquito larvae, fruit flies) but in most of the cases without that much success.

I hope to learn with all of you about this fascinating hobby!

Cheers!

You're welcome Ruben

Hi Ruben, please be welcome among us.

Daphnias are such a good fishfood.

Which species would you like to use?

I'll be moving to a new house in the near future and I'm using this period to read all I can about live food for killifish (I've spent a couple of hours reading this Forum already).

I'll raise microworms and grindal for sure.

I'll try to have a stable culture of daphnia pulex.

I will also try to raise Dendrocephalus brasiliensis.

However, my favourite live food is tubifex but I won't raise them at home because I find them too difficult for that (I'll just buy them if I find it for sale).

Welcome.

Hi Ruben, nice to meet a portuguese friend here !
I am most speciallized in large branchiopods.
I tried dendrocephalus from Brasil and like any kind anostraca, it is a very good food, and very easy to use.
It is the same kind that streptocephalus sirindhornae from Thailand, which is sold a very good price and like an ideal food for fry !
Best regards

Welcome !

Hello Thierry!

There are several reasons for me to say that.

Someone told me and then I "googled it" that tubifex is one of the richest live foods for us to give to our fishes.

The other reason is that they can resist to very hostile environments, so this means that you can keep a portion of tubifex for larger periods of time at your place without having it ruined easily.

As they can survive without having a lot of oxigen in the water, this means that if you want to keep a culture for just a couple of days before giving it all to the fishes, you can do it in a box without fancy requirements.

Reproducing them is another story. I never had success with that.

Cheers!

Welcome,

Hi Ruben,

Thanks for your interesting comments about tubifex

Regards

Tm