Re: APR by Ocean Star

["David Sanchez" <dsanchez@realestatechannel.com>]

Lilia APR is an excellent first food for fry too small to take bbs. I have
used it on various species of fry with great success. The problem is that it
pollutes the water very quickly as it is an inert food. You will want to
make sure you are using it in a bare bottom tank. In your case I would
recommend waiting for the eggs to hatch and siphoning up the wigglers to a
2.5 gallon tank where you can better control things a bit. You will only
need to feed them apr for a couple of days (2-3 days) and then you can go
back to bbs. Alternately I would recommend microworms or vinegar eels. These
are live foods and wont pollute the water as quickly. I use apr on some
sensitive fry that wont accept bbs but I use an overflow drip system to
constantly change the water because the DOC's will climb quickly as
evidenced by a sharp increase in conductivity. To illustrate this, I have a
one gallon container of fry with water that starts with a conductivity of 15
in 6 hours it will climb to over 70. with out the drip water change system I
would begin to have heavy losses because of the increase in urine, feces,
nitrate, ammonium etc ( DOC's) I just want to caution you with the apr it
works great just takes a bit of caution so you don't wipe your self out.
With the fry your talking about you could get by with feeding it and doing
say 2 water changes a day. In your case though your probably better served
using microworms, vinegar eels, or infusorians. But here is the info if you
like it. BTW I use the apr not for Apistos as 99% take bbs right from day
one. Good luck Lilia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stepanova, Lilia" <Lilia.Stepanova@stjude.org>
To: <apisto@listbox.com>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 3:25 AM
Subject: APR by Ocean Star


>
> Hi guys,
>
> Does anyone has an information on APR (Artificial something rotifier) by
> Ocean Star? I saw it on a web site discussing raising rainbowfishes as a
> food used for smallest fry before they could it BBS. I am curious if this
> can be used for rams first food? Web search did not turn up anything
> usefull.
>
> Best.
>
> LIlia
>
>
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