feeding the fry

[Bustacapp]

I was curiouse has anyone succesfully raised fry on egg yolk and or other non live foods if not is one microworm culture enough to supply the fry with food for the first 5 - 6 days (or whenever theyr old enough for bbs ) and when using the bbs whats the best way of preventing the swimbladder disorder any help would be great thanks

 

[cpowell]

Bustacap,
Well, I can only can only tell you about my personal experience....so here is goes. I tried giving my fry some boiled egg yolk, but they didn't respond well to it and never ate anything.
As for the microworm cultures, I currently have three that are going strong. Now they are producing a lot more worms then I really need, but at times, one of the cultures will stop producing worms. So, you will need a back-up in case this happens.
Good luck!

 

[cutecotton]

I was curiouse has anyone succesfully raised fry on egg yolk and or other non live foods if not is one microworm culture enough to supply the fry with food for the first 5 - 6 days (or whenever theyr old enough for bbs ) and when using the bbs whats the best way of preventing the swimbladder disorder any help would be great thanks

hello,

i've personally never tried using egg yolk for fry before becuase it clouds thew ater too much and most fry wont' touch it anyways. If you have a mw culture i suggest splitting it into at least 3, so you have a strongp roduction of worms, and if one culture fails you still have others to fall back on.

As for the bbs, i wouldn't put them on an all bbs diet when they can take it (usually around 7 days), i mix mw with bbs for the first 3 weeks, and then i try to ween them off live food after 3 weeks and go frozen.

I fed my fry a mixture of mw and bbs from day 1 - day 21, i notice now that some of them have devleoped a mild case of swim bladder problems. when you feed bbs make sure you do not feed any of the unhatched eggs as taht is the cuase of swim bladder diseases.

 

[rollntider]

I usually feed MW for the first 2 to 3 weeks and then I start feeding commercial food. The trick is to put the MW in the bubble stream of your sponge filter so they get used to food being in one place and for about a week i feed crushed flakes along with the MW the flakes are flying around and they attack the flakes after a week they eat just flakes....it works for me at least anyways....I still feed worms for a while but I alternate because the flakes have the beefed up nutrition.... I am also finding my bettas arent as picky when they get older. I also dont have to feed as many frozen bloodworms when they get older.


Also of note my last spawn I did this way as a test to see how they grew. This is by far the biggest spawn I have , they are the biggest fish in all of my spawns and yet the youngest, even my runts are pretty big....they are also coloring up quicker than my other spawns...

 

[f250fisherman]

My opinion is to get as much food as the fry can eat to them, without overfeeding to pollute the water. I use live plants in the spawn tank, to produce infusoria. I don't depend on this, but it can't hurt to try and have some. I feed 2 drops of Liquidfry#1 a day for 2 days. The liduidfry is to feed the infusoria, which in turn is eaten by the fry. There is also very tiny particles of food in it for any fry big enough to eat it. I start this after the eggs have hatched for 24 hrs. The fry really live on the egg sac for 2 days, but the bigger fry will start to eat if they find food. I also feed vinegar eels for 3 days, starting at 36 hrs from hatching. This is the time I remove my males. The vinegar eels are very small. They are not real nutritious, but because they are so small...all the fry can eat them. After 3 days from free swimming, I start feeding Micro worms. I feed MW for 3 weeks.At 1 week old, I start feeding BBS also. Always feed a small dose of MW before feeding BBS, and the SBD will not happen as often. Being extra careful extracting the BBS from the hatchery, will help in not getting any shells or unhatched eggs mixed in. At 3 weeks of age, I start feeding frozen Daphnia along with the BBS. Each week thereafter, I add frozen foods to their menu. I start adding the flake mix I make at 5 weeks old. By 8 weeks old, they will eat anything I feed them. Getting them foods that are small enough for them to eat at a few days old, is key to raising most of the fry. You will only get out of this what you are willing to put in it. Growing HMs is alot of work. It starts at birth. Clean water and a variety of high protein foods is a must for HM's. They have to have the combination of genes to produce that, but even then, conditions will determine if you achieve it or not.

 

[rollntider]

i have heard of doing the liqui fry, i will try it with my next spawn.

 

[Bustacapp]

Thanks alot guys got alot of information that im sure will help me with my spawn im still setting the tank up and havent even gotten any good breeding stock yet im goina make sure i have enough microworms and such b4 i even start anyone know of a good reputable place to buy a culture?

 

[f250fisherman]

Just remember to only use 2 drops per day for 2-3 days of the liquidfry#1. It will foul the water quickly if you use too much. I also put the drops in a bit of water, and stir it up real well, then put it in tank. If you don't, it will not spread out.