Re: When do I feed?

[jonathan <fung@is2.dal.ca>]

Start to feed them when the yoke sac is no longer apparent on the fry
(this is a matter of days from time of hatching), or when they appear
interested in the food. I have used newly hatched brine shrimp nuplii...
difficult to quantify how much. Feeding fry invariably invloves giving
them more than what they will eat, no matter how hard you try to minimize.
That is the tricky part to rearing fish, feeding them as much food as they
will take, and keeping the water clean. Successful rearing probably goes
something like... feeding three times a day with small live foods, daily
small water changes (10 to 20 %). Space out the fish into several
aquariums as they grow. 

-Jonathan

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Jonathan Fung... Reef Geek
Dalhousie University Honours Marine Biology
Aqua Creations Inc. Assistant Manager
writer for Marine Fish Monthly 
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Eric Martina wrote:

> Last Monday my A. borellis spawned. A few days later they hatched and I had
> little wigglers. Now they are sort of hopping along the bottom amongst the
> gravel. She made her nest under a clump of java moss. This is my first hatch
> so I was wondering: When do I start to feed them? How much, how often? I
> have a microworm culture and frozen BBS.
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric
> 
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> University of Illinois
> Electrical Engineering
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