Re: when do wrigglers start to eat?

[orion@tri-isys.com]

> Sorry this is a very basic question - how many days before wrigglers ought
> to be fed?
> 
> The situation is I've had a pair of mcmasteri for a couple of years and
> the female always eats the eggs. I finally stripped the eggs and all
> hatched last night to produce 19 healthy looking wrigglers. I remember
> people saying it takes about three days before they need feeding.
> 
> Also what do they eat at the beginning - is infusoria enough or do they
> need bigger food?
> 
> They are in a 15 gallon tank, the water is RO, the filter mature, and I've
> got a UV sterilizer hooked up so should be alright for fungus and
> bacteria. Anything else I should be thinking about that is critical to
> successful rearing of stripped fry?


You can start feeding your fry when they have fully absorb their yolk 
sac and are free swimming - this takes about 7-8 days from spawning -
, you may start them off with newly hatched BBS and suplement them 
with infusoria culture for the 'slow starters'.  You need to feed 
them at least twice a day (no more than 12 hours apart) preferably up 
to 4 times or more.

You can tell if they are having enough by viewing them with a 
magnifying glass you would notice their bellies would be rounded and 
show the  color of the food they consumed.

orion@tri-isys.com
Phillipines


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