Brine shrimp frequency

erik3333

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My juvenile newts are crazy about live artemia. How often can I feed them these? I'm asking because I heard they contain a lot of salt that might be damaging to newts.
 
Are you feeding adult artemia? If that´s the case, are you culturing it or buying it? If you are culturing Artemia, i would just recommend moving to a different species of anostracean, any fresh-water one. That way there would be no concerns.
It´s difficult to say how often you could feed artemia...because i doubt there´s a definitive answer. I would just say that it´s probably best to use them sparangly, alternating them with other options while still maintaining a staple basis of worms.
 
Thank's for the reply.

Yes, i'm feeding adult live artemia from the aquarium store. I'm feeding it once a week (after rinsing it thouroghly) and the newts go after them like crazy. Alongside i'm feeding daphnia, blackworms, bloodworms ad white worms. But these are no nearly favoured as much as the artemia...
Ideally i'd like to feed them earthworms but they are being spat out. I think they are too big.

I have no source for fresh water crustacaeans over here.
 
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