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[Betta Keeper]

Ok well the fry have started free swimming so I removed dad yesterday and fed some BBS but I cant tell if they are eating of not!! Today I tried some of the boiled egg yolk.
They are swimming around on top but I cant tell if they are eating.
Can YOU tell when your fry are eating?

 

[nashnut]

If they are eating the baby brine shrimp which they usually do... you will notice that their stomachs are a bright orange color and very round and full looking. I'm not sure on the egg yolk except that the stomachs should be round and look full.

 

[Betta Keeper]

hmm...They dont look like that

What should I do to get them to eat??

 

[Bre_B]

i just leave mine alone. I feed BBS, and just leave them be. They always survive for me, so yeah.. i dont actually SEE them eat till theyre like a week old.. even sometimes later, because im not quite observant with them

 

[nashnut]

I started mine on BBS on the second day. You could see the stronger ones chasing them down. I had a lot of light colored ones so that you could see the shrimp in their stomach.

Those were 10 days old at that time. I wanted you to see the color of the stomach more than anything.

 

[Betta Keeper]

I started mine on BBS on the second day. You could see the stronger ones chasing them down. I had a lot of light colored ones so that you could see the shrimp in their stomach.

Those were 10 days old at that time. I wanted you to see the color of the stomach more than anything.

I have about 200 fry
How many table spoons of bbs should I feed?

 

[clover]

i always start my fry of on microworms and they stay in one spot and the fry can easy get to them/eat them, when they are 2 weeks old i start water changes them give them bbs.

you want to feed them few bbs but a few times a day so u dont have them dieing and roting in the water, place a lamp at one end of the tank and all bbs will go to the light makeing it easyer for the fry to catch

 

[nashnut]

I added 1 teaspoon of Brine Shrimp eggs to the hatchery each day. I would then feed the babies in the morning and again in the early evening from what hatched out. I would then start a new batch. I kept two hatcheries running at all times. During the middle of the day, I fed MW to them. I had 317 babies at the last spawning.

 

[Betta Keeper]

I added 1 teaspoon of Brine Shrimp eggs to the hatchery each day. I would then feed the babies in the morning and again in the early evening from what hatched out. I would then start a new batch. I kept two hatcheries running at all times. During the middle of the day, I fed MW to them. I had 317 babies at the last spawning.

Well I have been feeding frozen baby brine shrimp because I cant get live here.

 

[Synirr]

That's the problem then, a lot of fry won't eat anything that doesn't move until about the 3rd week. You need to start up a BBS hatchery and hatch your own. You can find eggs at most LFSs, or order them online from Aquabid or Ebay.

 

[afireinside]

Click here for a place to get qualty Brine Shrimp.

 

[splashluff]

hrm. I've never heard of feeding newborn fry frozen foods. Buy some BBS eggs by San Francisco Bay brand at your local Petsmart and set up a hatchery ASAP! You can also pick up some Hikari First Bites ( at EVERY Petsmart) and/or liquid Fry food in case of an emergency. Continue with the egg yolk until you can get a hatchery going... egg yolk is super messy too, so be sure to start syphoning out the leftovers. Ideally, you should've had at least one Microworm culture going now and all of the supplies for a BBS hatchery ... BBS actually culls out some of the smaller fry, because the weaker/smaller newborns cannot eat BBS from day 1, which is why I started with MW's and Vinegar Eels.

 

[afireinside]

Sorry, here is a link to some qualaty eggs. Clicky clicky!

 

[Betta Keeper]

Well they are all still alive not one dead so that must mean they are eating right?

 

[afireinside]

Yes, most likely, but I'd really order brine shrimp eggs if I were you.