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Post by Bumblebee on Apr 13, 2006 18:12:02 GMT 10
For me its lots of clean water and lots of small feedings. Usually BBS and crushed pellets (commercial salmon feed). Feeding one food then the other. temps around 28-30c , lowered as the fish gets to 6 weeks of age. Then they get moved over to bloodworm/pellets for adult growth.
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Post by tidus97 on Jun 18, 2006 19:52:55 GMT 10
i do my water changes in my fry tank also, and i use liquafry(wrong spelling?) egg and crushed flakes (livebearer flakes) for the first few weeks i feed them the egg and liquafry because they contain lots of protian vital for growth, then i stop using liquafry and continue with egg and add crushed flakes. after another few weeks i feed them normal sized flakes and add bloodworms i dont use bbs because i heard you have to buy eggs and hach them yourself. or you can buy some but then again, they only last a week then die. i wouldnt have enought fish to finish the bbs and then it would die. now that i thought of it, if you want to finish all your bbs before it dies you would have to feed them bbs all week, which is ruining there diet. another thig is that bbs has to be caught by the fry, which in most cases wastes there energy. i hope i made my point of why [glow=red,2,300]i think bbs is bad[/glow]  |
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Post by Bumblebee on Jun 19, 2006 0:55:40 GMT 10
but then again. feed BBS to two groups of fry. one group will grow slowly, the ones fed BBS will be almost mature size at 4 weeks and several sizes larger than their siblengs. BBs does not die in a week, after all, it is just the larva of the brine shrimp that grows up to 2cm and may live for over a year. It just slowly loses its fatty content (good for fry) that is replaced by protein (good for adult fish). there is no problem with feeding a constant diet of BBS. some of my fish will get this for the first 6 weeks of life with only a little ground up pellet in-between. with 3-6 feeds daily the problem is not wasting the shrimp but rather ever having enough. as for them having to catch the tings. I dont think there is any water creature that could move slower.  |
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Post by tidus97 on Jun 19, 2006 1:31:40 GMT 10
ok good points. well i never used it before so i made my judgements using other live foods, which die in a week of burchase, and move fast. i didnt know that they where slow moving creatures of long living ness ;D ok maybe i might change my mind.....  |
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Post by sammigold on Jun 19, 2006 14:28:56 GMT 10
You can also buy frozen bbs... thats what I have done.. and I feed mine a high protein fry mix that my LFS gets...(it has no name and comes in a takeaway container but my guppys grow really well when I feed them that as part of their diet.. I noticed the difference when I ran out and a new batch of fry took twice as long to grow.) and they get crushed flake....
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Post by tidus97 on Jun 19, 2006 16:43:25 GMT 10
yea. if i had to use bbs i would use frozen. They dont move and last a long time.
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