Fry Food

Netty has been really kind in giving me some guidance if my eggs hatch. I held back to see if they would fertilise and well over the last 24 hours they have grey dots inside and can be expecting them to hatch even by tomorrow!

I have on hand grounded bloodworm dust, can get hold of egg yolf and liquifry. I know decapsulated brineshrimp is best and may try to order some tonight but how do you hatch it and little worried may not make it due to the strikes. Assistance is needed (thanks again Netty for that link at work and cant make it work at the moment! thanks also verrrryy much for the guidance). Very excited, it does look like they are developing and cant wait to get home and check on them.

One last question, the three fry we have currently start to look like lamps, they are still tiny but can all fry generally go together? Thanks peeps (again sorry for all my threads and questions at the moment, when it rains it pours!)

GoodLuck Amy [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

If im not wrong, you cant actually hatch 'decapsulated' brine shrimp, its just powder. The normal brine shrimp, you can buy eggs, and setup a 2l coke bottle with dechlor water and some rock salt, you will need an air pump to put in also so the shells can move away from the newly hatched brine. for exact measurements, type in google "hatch baby brine shrimp"
Netty also has it on the site somewhere, most likely in the fry bit.

RE; egg yolk, a tad messy, just make sure you syphon the substrate so it doesnt pollute the tank too much.
Hope that helps:)

blush time! confused on the decapsulated lol, will look on netty and van's page.

One alternative I have blocks of frozen brineshrimp that I could crush finely (batter it) and then defrost for them? Will try to order the recommended foodies that Netty has recommended in meantime but juuuuust in case!

Thanks so much betta_246 xx

no worries ...

the frozen stuff might work, but the general 'rule' with fry is that they like 'moving' food, so yeh that would be your bbs etc. You could try culturing your own white worms.

Netty's reccommendations are highly reccommended, shes experienced and very helpful! lol

Oooo exciting....I hope you get some little babies soon hun and you're vey welcome to the link. I know they recommend for cory fry so hopefully you'll be able to get some. Any probs then let me know and I'll send you some of mine to tide you over [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

the other thing you can use for new born tiny baby is to squaze the fillter media and give them some of the juice from it. ive never tried it but ive heard of people doing it for small fry

Hoping tomorrow might be the day of hatching! (Day four!) not heard of that one before kizno I will consider it

i think it might release infusoria not too sure though, but you could always get an apple snail, there waste has infusoria, it should be added after fry hatch, because if added before, it will eat the eggs. Also as netty said in my thread, you will have to keep up to date with cleaning