Can African Dwarf's live solely on Brine Shrimp?

[flipper]

Is brine shrimp enough for them to live on. Are blood worms more nutritious?

[flipper]

I usually let each of my african dwarf frogs eat 2-3 shrimp each per day. Is this too little? Thanks!

[DigitalPunk]

Merged your 2 threads together. It helps others help you if you keep all your similar questions together in one thread.

[Mentat]

DACFs should be fed until tummies start to look look rounder or to satiation. A one item diet is not recommended. Other recommended food items are: thawed frozen bloodworms (if allergic to them like myself, get cubes, not flats); thawed frozen daphnia; live black worms; tadpole bites (pellets). Do not use any freeze dried foods!

[flipper]

Thanks for letting me know! A fish store owner who's been in my town since 1989 told me Brine shrimp would provide them enough nutrients. I trusted him and took my frogs off the pellet diet thinking live food would be the best. Since then they've gotten really skinny. I tried getting all natural Spirulina powder and putting it in the shrimp tank to gut load the brine but after a day all the shrimp died. I was told you can't let Spirulina powder sink to the bottom. I wish I had Spirulina growing along side the brine.

Do you like the brand Hikari. They make a ton of good frozen things I didn't know about like frozen gut loaded brine, frozen bloodworms, frozen daphina ect.

[Mentat]

Hikari is an excellent brand of both frozen and pellet fish food .