Feeding Fry

[Gingerlove05]

Am i right in thinking all fry born from eggs survive off the egg sac for the first couple of days? Honestly cant remember offhand

Yes, but how long fry use their egg sac's I cannot remember off hand, think it's 2-3 days if I recall. To be honest it's been six years since I bred any egglayers, it's been all Livebearers since 2013.

It’s definitely a couple of days, just wasnt sure if there were any exceptions

I understand the infusoria and worms are best. But this would cause no end of agro especially if anything starts to get smelly. Simply seeing what other options there are out there that could support them. Until their big enough for things like damphina ect

As I mentioned the frozen rotifers are good as they are tiny

[Martinspuddle]

As I mentioned the frozen rotifers are good as they are tiny

I've never tried Rotifers for feeding fry, knew of them. I'll stick to me worms!

[Stevieglasgow]

I've only ever bread platys, gubbys and krib but I Gingerlove I usually just crush some flakes although I've recently started using TetraMin Baby which is essentially powdered flakes and seem pretty good tbh

Unfortunately flake is just too big for these fry and you cannot use livebearer fry foods. When the fry first hatch those Tetra in Baby flakes are as big as the fry!

I bought powderd protein based fish food off ebay it worked a treat for my baby celestial pearl danios.think it cost £4
Stevie

Have you got the ebay link for this product?

The liquifry can be messy. For fry i found using ground up food adult foods (i use a pestle and mortar) or the smaller frozen foods (daphnia, rotifers) to be better.

I agree with you about the Liquifry food, too much and it can foul the water, but these new products might worth a look. Personally I will stick to the worm's!

This was it and acully cheaper than I thought.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 1991057042

[Tycho]

Looks very similar to the tetramin baby stuff...

I like the different varieties

[plankton]

Have a search on ebay and see if they still sell infusoria tablets.

[Martinspuddle]

Have a search on ebay and see if they still sell infusoria tablets.

You'll find the listing next to the section for Sky hooks.

[plankton]

They used to be available, but they do seem to be like sky hooks or hen's teeth lately.
There is some stuff called Protogen, but I don't know what it actually is........

[Martinspuddle]

They used to be available, but they do seem to be like sky hooks or hen's teeth lately.
There is some stuff called Protogen, but I don't know what it actually is........

I thought you were pulling my leg, but no your right and whats more I'd seen the packet among the foods before and I hadn't taken any notice.



It's available on Amazon.

[Zebra Fish]

They used to be available, but they do seem to be like sky hooks or hen's teeth lately.
There is some stuff called Protogen, but I don't know what it actually is........

I thought you were pulling my leg, but no your right and whats more I'd seen the packet among the foods before and I hadn't taken any notice.



It's available on Amazon.

Wow that stuff sounds really cool, either feed dry or add to water and you can make a liquid mix of infusoria!

[Martinspuddle]

Wow that stuff sounds really cool, either feed dry or add to water and you can make a liquid mix of infusoria!

It may well work but I would suggest do some serious research on the internet about using these types of products with newly hatched fry. Hobby is a German company,
website; https://www.dohse-aquaristik.com/en/produkte