Re: [RML] Green Water

Jennifer Palmer (aquamail at mypostbox.com)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 17:33:12 +1100

You are right Carvi, water borne algae is a food of choice for growing
artemia. Specific strains of algae are chosen for their higher nutrional
value to the artemia, which is passed on to the fish being fed the BS.

Regards,
Jennifer.

At 17:58 15/01/99 -0600, you wrote:
>At 09:01 AM 1/14/99 -0800, you wrote:
>>Hi Bruce,
>> Like I said, it is just speculation, I just remember when I started to
>>feed BBS in earnest, the water cleared. It could well be total
>>coincidence, or the straw that broke the camel's back (GW in this case
>><g>), or the main reason, I don't know. I don't often have a green
>>water problem (twice that I can remember), so I really shouldn't draw
>>any real conclusions. I agree whole heartily about daphnia though, I'd
>>add them before BS to clear GW any day, they won't die in a few hours.
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>I wouldn't be surprised if the BBS fed on the green water. Many marinefish
>breeders feed the bbs greenwater and/or selco before feeding them to the
>fish.
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