Fixing long lasting fry food.

[kevy]

I’m breeding livebearers for a project, so I’m going to have a lot more fry over the next couple months. I was thinking it would probably be a good idea to have a lot of food made up for them. So I have an old canister that once held tropical flakes and I wanted to fix a big batch of fry food in there and keep it for the next couple months (or however long it lasts). I figured it’d be a lot easier than continually crushing small amounts of flakes into using zip lock bags.

Well, anyways, besides tropical flakes, what else would everyone suggest I mix in there?




PS, Thanks a lot to everyone that’s been helping me the last couple months, it’s been awesome.

 

[Eelzor]

Fry will probably eat anything it can fit in its tiny mouth. Powdered flakes would be all. Some newly hatched brine shrimp would also be nice.

 

[guppymonkey]

Just get some Sea Monkey kits and breed them as "feeder monkeys"! They give you food and everything.

 

[Kossy]

I have heard sea monkeys are great for fry...however there not too nutritious there like 90% water . However if you like you could try feed your fry boiled egg yolk....NOTE follow my instructions incredibly carefully if you choose this. This is a highly protein diet and can pollute your tank if not eaten...So what I reccomend is firstly boiling an egg....*whistle whistle whilstle* great timer went off...now cool the egg. Peel it and cut in half. Now get about one - one/half grains worth of rice (In yolk) YES THATS ALL put the yolk on a spoon and add some water squash it around a bit and then add to the tank...feed them this aobut once a day.

 

[colin5861]

I get a good staple flake food and grind it small in a ziplock - then I add about 25% by volume of freeze dried brine shrimp . The freeze dry shrimp should just crunch down into powder. Then the same amount of freeze dried tubiflex worms again crushed down into powder. ( this is a bit more difficult )
Then look at the total amount you have and add half again of flora type ( vegie only ) flake - again crushed to powder.

I feed this to my guppy fry inbetween live BBS feedings and it is protein rich but still contains a good variety of other nutrients for health. They absolutly adore this mix.

I do not mix up too much at once though , only a weeks worth at a time. (Although when you think about it there is nothing that can go stale - its all dried food -just being fussy I guess)


good luck with your project


Colin