. All I feed this tank is a pellet that is crushed into a fine powder for the smallest fry.
Newly hatched fry cannot eat adult Daphnia but can eat very small juveniles, microworms are better for the first 72 hours then BBS and flakes.I just bought a bag from my LFS and released them into my fry tank and now they are thriving. Well, the adults are babies not so much
Microworms are good to have because you can feed them several times a day while you’re waiting for BBS to hatch . New fry grow best on multiple daily feedings .
This is the second time I've ever bred fish. So have never used BBS or microworms. Trying to keep things low cost. Crushed flakes/pellets have worked for me so far along with my own infusoria culture. Of course, they won't be getting the best and most nutritious food possible, but I've had a healthy 20+ Sawbwa group get to adults and now Ricefish that are not too far from adulthood as well. The daphnia are in that tank as an alternative food source.
Didn't know that might give that a go.
You buy a culture and keep it up.
Yeast is an iffy thing, you can kill them quicker than with green water.
when it comes to feeding yeast you need to be careful not to overfeed it is quick and easy to use and as good as green water
Yeast in nowhere as good as green water as it has no nutrients. Green water on the other hand is nutrient rich phytoplankton. You cannot kill daphnia by overfeeding green water, but you can kill them graveyard dead with improper yeast feeding. I have tried both, and there is no comparison. With yeast you are just waiting for them to crash from overfeeding which is impossible with green water. Yeast fouls the water when overdone and there is no good idea what is too much.
Order a culture from eBay.
