My infusoria under a compound light microscope!

[Rocky998]

 

[connorlindeman]

Thats pretty cool! What microscope do you have?

 

[Rocky998]

Thats pretty cool! What microscope do you have?

Its one of the cheaper brands... Its an IQCREW 52 piece microscope set with the ability to magnify up to 1200×. Its normally $60 but we got ours at a thrift store for $5. We want to upgrade sometime soon

 

[outofwater]

Its one of the cheaper brands... Its an IQCREW 52 piece microscope set with the ability to magnify up to 1200×. Its normally $60 but we got ours at a thrift store for $5. We want to upgrade sometime soon

$5, that's a deal. Cool stuff, thanks for sharing.

 

[Rocky998]

$5, that's a deal. Cool stuff, thanks for sharing.

No problem! I love sharing things

 

[Fishmanic]

That infusoria looks like traffic at rush hour in New York city.

 

[Rocky998]

That infusoria looks like traffic at rush hour in New York city.

There is so many that when you look in the jar you see a cloud of white specks. Not the normal cloudy water but actual specks of infusoria! Its insane! I'm pretty sure they are attacking something in that video I shared

 

[itiwhetu]

That is great, I would have thought though your fry now at three weeks would be far too large to be eating infusoria especially if they are eating your egg yolk mixture.

 

[Rocky998]

That is great, I would have thought though your fry now at three weeks would be far too large to be eating infusoria especially if they are eating your egg yolk mixture.

After reading a lot on PG fry... Turns out people hate them cause they grow sooooo slow. These guys are still really tiny.

 

[Rocky998]

I also think a few starved themselves to death. I only have 2-3 fry left out of the 5-6 I had. Although a family friend who also had bred fish said that for a first or second batch of fry its a normal amount to make it alive.

 

[Rocky998]

Life tip: never leave banana infusoria filled water on your finger and then use the zoom on the microscope. You will burn your nostrils out and never get the smell out of your body

 

[Colin_T]

At 1 month old, all freshwater fish fry should be able to eat newly hatched brineshrimp. Marine fish fry should be able to as well.

If fry are dying, it is either poor water quality (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate) or starvation.

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Fry that are less than 1 month old should be kept in shallow containers with less than 4 inches of water in. This lets the fry be closer to the food so they waste less energy trying to catch it. Once they are on newly hatched brineshrimp, you can slowly increase the water level.

As a general rule for freshwater fry, they can either go straight onto newly hatched brineshrimp (livebearers and cichlid fry can do this). Or they go onto green water and infusoria for the first 2 weeks and then newly hatched brineshrimp is added at around the 2 week mark. You keep feeding them green water and infusoria until they are all eating the brineshrimp. Then you can stop feeding infusoria and green water. However, if you don't mind the green water, the fry can live in that for months.

 

[Rocky998]

At 1 month old, all freshwater fish fry should be able to eat newly hatched brineshrimp. Marine fish fry should be able to as well.

If fry are dying, it is either poor water quality (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate) or starvation.

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Fry that are less than 1 month old should be kept in shallow containers with less than 4 inches of water in. This lets the fry be closer to the food so they waste less energy trying to catch it. Once they are on newly hatched brineshrimp, you can slowly increase the water level.

As a general rule for freshwater fry, they can either go straight onto newly hatched brineshrimp (livebearers and cichlid fry can do this). Or they go onto green water and infusoria for the first 2 weeks and then newly hatched brineshrimp is added at around the 2 week mark. You keep feeding them green water and infusoria until they are all eating the brineshrimp. Then you can stop feeding infusoria and green water. However, if you don't mind the green water, the fry can live in that for months.

I mean I dont think these guys are 3 weeks at all... Their younger than that definitely but I cant get any brine shrimp. Im doing the best I can with the resources I have. The fry may have starved because these guys are picky eaters and may have not been eating the egg yolk... But they are so small that its hard to tell whether or not they are actually eating. And these guys are in a net breeder box inside the main tank which is around 4in tall

 

[itiwhetu]

Your fry are 4 weeks old tomorrow you set up a thread about them on April 7

 

[Rocky998]

Your fry are 4 weeks old tomorrow you set up a thread about them on April 7

Time flies...