What Is The Best Fry Food?

[ilovelizards]

If you pick Baby Brine Shrimp is there a ways to have them reproduce and have a constane surply of baby shrimp and reproduceing/growing shrimp??

 

[Ny82]

I have had 3 batches of fry so far and they have all been fed on tetra min baby food which is a fine powder and when they are about 3-4 weeks old I just give them crushed flake and they have done well.

 

[Gavin3171]

Been feeding my mollie fry crushed flake and they arent growing much

 

[ilovelizards]

Been feeding my mollie fry crushed flake and they arent growing much

Thas been my problem even with hihari tropical first bites

 

[Scales9]

Always feed my babies what the adults eat, I just crush it into a powder.

 

[NeonNeptune]

Always feed my babies what the adults eat, I just crush it into a powder.

Works for me.

 

[Dieses Madchen]

Depends on the fry. Some fry will not take dry food. My jack dempsey fry still are not wanting the eat dry food. Betta fry will only take live food, such as BBS, and most cichlids are the same way. BBS is the best way to go as its healthier and the fry will grow faster and stronger. If the BBS is fed the days its hatched, its most nutritious as the BBS still have their yolk sacs attached. I have fed fry with both flakes and BBS and BBS proves to be much better.

As far as having a constant supply, have dual hatcheries that way there are always some brewing. Its really easy to do. I have been hatching BBS for over a month now.

 

[ilovelizards]

Depends on the fry. Some fry will not take dry food. My jack dempsey fry still are not wanting the eat dry food. Betta fry will only take live food, such as BBS, and most cichlids are the same way. BBS is the best way to go as its healthier and the fry will grow faster and stronger. If the BBS is fed the days its hatched, its most nutritious as the BBS still have their yolk sacs attached. I have fed fry with both flakes and BBS and BBS proves to be much better.

As far as having a constant supply, have dual hatcheries that way there are always some brewing. Its really easy to do. I have been hatching BBS for over a month now.

Right now I have a ballon molly thats soon going to give birth and a pregnet guppy&platy

 

[Dieses Madchen]

I fed platys flakes, but I fed my jack dempseys BBS. Its really up to you on what you want to feed them. Molly fry will readily except flakes, but its my opinion that bbs is healthier.

 

[OldMan47]

I see that I am the only "Other" vote so far. The best food for fry depends on both what you have available and the specific needs of your fry. If I feed my killies on nothing but BBS, I am probably going to deprive them of things that they need although BBS is regarded as the best killie fry food. If I feed that same BBS to my Ataeniobius towerii fry I am definitely short changing them. A towerii, a live bearing goodeid, is a vegetarian, so why in the world would I feed them anything but vegetable matter? I use crushed spirulina flake for them. If you have no way to get BBS or such and have fish that will appreciate meaty foods, how about some nice frozen daphnia or even some microworms. No matter what you do, be sure to include a variety of foods to get maximal response from your fish. There is no single food that provides all of the needed nutrients for any fry.

 

[Dieses Madchen]

I see that I am the only "Other" vote so far. The best food for fry depends on both what you have available and the specific needs of your fry. If I feed my killies on nothing but BBS, I am probably going to deprive them of things that they need although BBS is regarded as the best killie fry food. If I feed that same BBS to my Ataeniobius towerii fry I am definitely short changing them. A towerii, a live bearing goodeid, is a vegetarian, so why in the world would I feed them anything but vegetable matter? I use crushed spirulina flake for them. If you have no way to get BBS or such and have fish that will appreciate meaty foods, how about some nice frozen daphnia or even some microworms. No matter what you do, be sure to include a variety of foods to get maximal response from your fish. There is no single food that provides all of the needed nutrients for any fry.

Good stuff. Thanks for chiming in. I know you always have some great information Oldman47.

 

[fish48]

I see that I am the only "Other" vote so far. The best food for fry depends on both what you have available and the specific needs of your fry. If I feed my killies on nothing but BBS, I am probably going to deprive them of things that they need although BBS is regarded as the best killie fry food. If I feed that same BBS to my Ataeniobius towerii fry I am definitely short changing them. A towerii, a live bearing goodeid, is a vegetarian, so why in the world would I feed them anything but vegetable matter? I use crushed spirulina flake for them. If you have no way to get BBS or such and have fish that will appreciate meaty foods, how about some nice frozen daphnia or even some microworms. No matter what you do, be sure to include a variety of foods to get maximal response from your fish. There is no single food that provides all of the needed nutrients for any fry.

ataeniobius toweri are not vegetarian's they do not require any vegetable matter in there diet,
feeding a good variety of foods and live foods are more beneficial then feeding vegetable matter,

 

[basboi85]

as said above I feed my fry what the adults eat which is aquarium tropical fish food flakes and some bloodworms and they are growing quite quick as to me they've doubled in size in the last month and from what i see somewhere that their stomach is the size of their eye

 

[OldMan47]

Sorry Fisgh48 but I got that requirement right from an expert at an ALA convention presentation on the group we call goodeids. I am not ready to try to challenge him on what he said about fish dietary preferences but have found his classifications quite reliable. Since his other material has been so reliable, I trust his statement that A towerii are indeed vegetarian in nature. Do you have any empirical data that conflict with such a classification?

 

[NeonNeptune]

My guppy and endler fry mainly eat algae of aquarium decor now days since I stopped saving them before I have to many fish.