What To Feed Ram Fry?

[Messi]

Got some rams which are about to become free swimming soon, just wandering what I could feed them? I can't culture baby brineshrimps as I don't have the time or space for that. I do have a microworm culture but I'm thinking that these are very risky because some of the worms are far too big for the fry to eat, and because they're the only fish in the tank nothing else will eat the larger worms and they'll just die and pollute the water.
 
Just something that came to my mind, but if I defrosted some frozen bloodworm would the fry be able to eat the liquid from the defrosted bloodworm cube? I know about Infusoria but it's too late for that, a culture would take at least 3 days to make and these fry will need food within 36 hours.

 

[ReddSamurai]

Interpet Liquifry No. 1, never used it myself but it could be something to look into
 
...im debating breeding GB rams in a few months time, any extra info you could share?

 

[Messi]

Interpet Liquifry No. 1, never used it myself but it could be something to look into
 
...im debating breeding GB rams in a few months time, any extra info you could share?

Considering that they're cichlids they make very bad parents. Often eating their first few spawns and not protecting them adequately enough from predators. I get mine to spawn on almond leaves which have anti fungal properties meaning almost none of the eggs will get fungus. I then take the leaf out with the eggs on it into the breeding tank. The hardest part seems to be feeding them since they refuse most comercial brands of food.
 
Also I figured this out by accident but the eggs hatch much faster if you leave the lights on. My current batch took around 34 hours to hatch with the lights on wheras the last batch took 3 days to hatch. Not a big fan of Liquifry, the last batch I had contained a bunch of dead organisms which polluted my water quite badly.

 

[ReddSamurai]

Interpet Liquifry No. 1, never used it myself but it could be something to look into
 
...im debating breeding GB rams in a few months time, any extra info you could share?

Considering that they're cichlids they make very bad parents. Often eating their first few spawns and not protecting them adequately enough from predators. I get mine to spawn on almond leaves which have anti fungal properties meaning almost none of the eggs will get fungus. I then take the leaf out with the eggs on it into the breeding tank. The hardest part seems to be feeding them since they refuse most comercial brands of food.
 
Also I figured this out by accident but the eggs hatch much faster if you leave the lights on. My current batch took around 34 hours to hatch with the lights on wheras the last batch took 3 days to hatch. Not a big fan of Liquifry, the last batch I had contained a bunch of dead organisms which polluted my water quite badly.

yea i heard about that, im having a separate tank for putting the GBRs into and depending whats best i may put them back into the tank they are in atm.
i also heard putting having someway for the water to pass over the eggs prevents fungus too? is that right?
ahh thanks ill try remember that...the GBRs i have at the moment are still juvenile so i still got a while.
 
have you tried hikeri first bites? or are they to big? 

 

[Messi]

 

Interpet Liquifry No. 1, never used it myself but it could be something to look into
 
...im debating breeding GB rams in a few months time, any extra info you could share?

Considering that they're cichlids they make very bad parents. Often eating their first few spawns and not protecting them adequately enough from predators. I get mine to spawn on almond leaves which have anti fungal properties meaning almost none of the eggs will get fungus. I then take the leaf out with the eggs on it into the breeding tank. The hardest part seems to be feeding them since they refuse most comercial brands of food.
 
Also I figured this out by accident but the eggs hatch much faster if you leave the lights on. My current batch took around 34 hours to hatch with the lights on wheras the last batch took 3 days to hatch. Not a big fan of Liquifry, the last batch I had contained a bunch of dead organisms which polluted my water quite badly.

yea i heard about that, im having a separate tank for putting the GBRs into and depending whats best i may put them back into the tank they are in atm.
i also heard putting having someway for the water to pass over the eggs prevents fungus too? is that right?
ahh thanks ill try remember that...the GBRs i have at the moment are still juvenile so i still got a while.
 
have you tried hikeri first bites? or are they to big? 

Hikari first bites are too big for their first few meals. The parents actually fan the eggs from time to time, if you just keep them in stagnent water without the parents then pretty much all of them will fungus. An airstone near the eggs works well.