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Has anyone had success keeping these? I think they're amazingly beautiful, but I heard they're notoriously hard to get to eat.

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Yeah I wish these guys could work. They're just too dang gorgeous for their own good.
 

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Had them. They all died slowly over a period of 6 months. Trained them to eat and they were aggressive eating too. Would gobble up whole PE mysis and everything I fed. I feed 3-5x a day too so I don't think they were not getting enough food.

One by one they stopped eating and died. Its a shame.
 
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Why do suppliers still sell them then? If that's the case then they need to stop.
 

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Around 4 months, and they were eating just fine.

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Mine lasted to about 6 months, eating very well and gobbling up food. Then they slowly one by one stopped eating. Could never figure out why... It was odd.
 

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I haven't had much luck either.

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Feed baby brine shrimp every half an hour. There is a good article from Matthew Wandell how he keep purple queen for long time.

Where did you guys get your tuka? I found local stores were selling anthias pascalus rather than tuka.
 

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Feed baby brine shrimp every half an hour. There is a good article from Matthew Wandell how he keep purple queen for long time.

Where did you guys get your tuka? I found local stores were selling anthias pascalus rather than tuka.

You happen to have a link to the article?
 

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Start to taking Sustainable Aquatics Hatchery Diet 0.8 mm pellets. I am mixing it with cyclop-eeze seems working as well. ready to taking baby brine shrimp for a while until new doser arrival.[h=3][/h]
 
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