mysis problem

[anthropo]

my dad and me share foods, to cut the costs down a little and one of the foods that we share is mysis shrimp. We always get a 16 oz flat pack of hikari mysis. well the other day the fish store we buy food from cause it's the only place that sells the 16oz ran out of hikari and the only other mysis in that big of a package was a brand named piscine energetics. My dad bought it thinking it was of the same quality, especially since it was 5 dollars more than hikari. i'm not sure if it is cause i've never heard of this brand of fish food and on the package it says FRESHWATER MYSIS. i'm not sure if this is good or bad for saltwater but on the package it says for both fresh and salt water. i'm use to using saltwater mysis. these are also bigger. anyone tell me if i'm over reacting or if i shouldn't feed this to my saltwater fish?

 

[garnet13aj]

I've heard that you shouldn't feed saltwater animals freshwater animals, but I'm no expert so you should wait for some other opinions.
I bet you could feed them it every once in a while until it is gone as part of a varied diet and then go back to the saltwater variety and it would be fine. How long does a packet usually last you?

 

[30-xtra high]

if its for saltwater and fresh, its fine, a lil bit less nutricious, but it does the job, i got a 30 pack of fresh/salt mysis, and all my fish adore the stuff, and it's nutricious, but not enuff so i feed pellets to, and that duz it.

 

[chipmaker]

On a few other sites the concept is that its fine to feed sw fish fw fish and critters and visa versa since fw nasties do not live in sw and visa versa. I have never paid attention to mysis one way or another and just buy frozen packs of it. The brands and packing varies at the lfs here, and the fish naver complained. I feed my cichlids silversides all the time as well as my oscars. Been feeding those oscars silversides most of their lives. I also drop in live guppies in my sw fish tanks,. They are not acclimated to SW but they do not last long enough to worry about as they get snatched up rather quickly once they hit the water.

 

[anthropo]

thanks for the replies. another question, is there both saltwater and freshwater mysis? cause these mysis are gigantic compared to what i'm use to.

 

[30-xtra high]

nope, the only difference is the stuff these soak the lil shrimp in, the actual shrimp are the same, the reason that your new ones are bigger is cuase the company difference, some companies wait longer before they kill the shrimp, giving them time to grow bigger.

 

[bojik]

It was probably only desalted for fw use.