Am I feeding them too much?

[foxgirl158]

Hello!
My platy fry are now 2 1/2 weeks old, and are getting bigger by the day. I feed them baby brine shrimp once, and give them a bug bite to nibble off of or crushed flakes for a total of two medium sized feedings a day. They seem to have large, bulging stomachs that are the color of the brine shrimp that slowly recede until the next feeding. Do I need to decrease the amount of food I'm giving them? There are 18 fry in a 3.5 gallon bucket and around 12 in a fry trap in a 10 gallon tank.
Another thing: I had a very small, under-developed fry that wasn't able to swim quite yet so she was laying on the bottom of the trap, but she was slowly getting stronger. Yesterday, I did a water change on the whole 10 gal, being very careful not to tip the trap or stick the syphon inside it. I look at the trap around 4 hours later and she's missing. I search the gravel under the trap and the floor of the trap, but she completely disappeared. Would the fry have been able to eat her? At some points in the video you can see her as a small translucent bump in the upper left corner of the trap. I didn't think she was small enough for them to eat her, but maybe if they all ganged up on her? If I am feeding them too much, why would they eat her?
Sorry for the video quality, the camera had trouble focusing on the tiny fish.
TIA!

 

[Sgooosh]

they seem to be fine sometimes fry are like that if they eat too much, feed one meal less and just feed them like normal
whats with all the bubbles down there? its like a betta made a nest

 

[foxgirl158]

they seem to be fine sometimes fry are like that if they eat too much, feed one meal less and just feed them like normal
whats with all the bubbles down there? its like a betta made a nest

Ok, thank you! And I’m not exactly sure what’s up with the bubbles. I think it’s air pockets getting caught maybe?
What do you think about the disappearance of my little fry? I’m very upset by it, as she was the last of my “special needs” fry, and I was thinking she would make it since she had already made it two weeks.

 

[Colin_T]

Baby fish should be fed 3-5 times a day, and given as much food as they can eat. You want them to have fat bellies and look like a pregnant guppy.

Feed dry food first, then live brineshrimp. The babies can eat the brineshrimp over the next few hours.

 

[Sgooosh]

Ok, thank you! And I’m not exactly sure what’s up with the bubbles. I think it’s air pockets getting caught maybe?
What do you think about the disappearance of my little fry? I’m very upset by it, as she was the last of my “special needs” fry, and I was thinking she would make it since she had already made it two weeks.

bigger fry probably ate her

 

[Naughts]

Keep doing frequent feeds.
My guess is the under developed fry slipped through the side slats of the breeding box. She may have then been syphoned but, more likely, she is in the main tank somewhere.
BTW platies are not black so these are probably mollies.

 

[emeraldking]

BTW platies are not black so these are probably mollies.

Oh well, black platies do exist.

 

[foxgirl158]

Keep doing frequent feeds.
My guess is the under developed fry slipped through the side slats of the breeding box. She may have then been syphoned but, more likely, she is in the main tank somewhere.
BTW platies are not black so these are probably mollies.

The black ones were born from a bumblebee platy, they have small amounts of color on them but it’s hard to see