An All BBS Diet?

[JoKeR]

not many breeders will use an all bbs diet. we only use it for a period of 2 to 3 weeks after they have been fed vinegar eels and before feeding something more substantial like grindal worms as it doesn't give enough vital nutriants for growing fry. before we start breeding again in a couple of weeks we will have to aquire some more grindal worms as our last culture (which lasted 6 months) became too contaminated with mites and had to be thrown out. anyone can breed bettas if they get lucky, the trick is raising healthy, strong fry that actually grow into healthy, strong adults.

True

Thats what my mission is trying to raise little nippers to Big Adults...

 

[JoKeR]

anyone can breed bettas if they get lucky, the trick is raising healthy, strong fry that actually grow into healthy, strong adults.

argh i cannot agree with you more, i found out that you guys wernet lying when you told me breeding was the easy part and raising was the hard part!

I use mw, bbs, adn then by 3 weeks (this batch) i started them on some frozen daphnia, and then frozen fodo from there on...since i don't have grindels or vinegar eels

I dont got grindals or vinegars ells either

How does this sound

1-3 weeks a Mixture of BBS with MWs

3-6 weeks a mixture of frozen foods(bloodworms,blackworms,daphina,) and live blackworms

6 weeks-years Pellets,Live Blackworms....

 

[f250fisherman]

Like every thing else, there are several ways to raise fry. I guess none is wrong, unless the fry don't survive. I prefer to give a mixed diet for different reasons. It is better for the fish, and they will eat better for anyone else who gets the fish when they are grown.
I start the fry on Liquid Fry #1, and Vinegar Eels for the first 3 days. Vinegar Eels and Microworms from day 3 to day 7, and then Micro worms and BBS till the end of week 3. I then start adding frozen Daphnia to the diet, along with the MW and BBS, and slowly bring in frozen BS, as they get bigger. I smash the frozen BS, so the pieces are smaller. If I could give 1 suggestion that would help most people, it would be to feed the MicroWorms 15 min. before feeding the BBS. By doing this, it helps to prevent swim bladder disorder. The fry are partly full from the MW, and they don't gorge themselves with bbs. This is something I picked up from several top breeders, and it worked for me when I tried it. One way of deciding if things are working for you, is the percent of fry that make it to the growout tank. I think doing the MW, then BBS...along with feeding frozen Daphnia at 3 weeks old, was the key to raising more fry. Of couse clean water is vital. It can't be too clean for fry. Clean is not the same as sterile. In case some don't know...the fry put off a chemical to stunt the other fry, so they don't grow as fast. I knew this, but didn't carry it on to my 55 gal growout tank. I figured there was enough water to make a difference. When I was told by Ralph Tran that the chemicals was still affecting the fry, I started changing water in that tank more frequently. There was a big boost in growing when I did. Clean water, and a variety of food will do more for you than anything else you can do.

 

[cutecotton]

anyone can breed bettas if they get lucky, the trick is raising healthy, strong fry that actually grow into healthy, strong adults.

3-6 weeks a mixture of frozen foods(bloodworms,blackworms,daphina,) and live blackworms

i think you should still be keeping up with a bit of mw and bbs for the smaller ones who can't take frozen food yet. Sometimes the frozen is still too big for the smaller ones to eat

 

[JoKeR]

Aha!

So when im about to feed the Frozen Daphina I should drop some MWs

that souns good

Thanks everybody!

Thanks u too f250fisherman!