Re: Not fed fry

[Donald Nute <dnute@ai.uga.edu>]

On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Pierluigi e Simone Vicini wrote:

> I was doing an experiment living two apisto borellii fry alone in a well
> planted tank without giving them anything to eat. Let me tell you that the
> growth rate is the same of the growth rate of lightly fed fry. No deformed
> growth no strange colors. 3 months old now. They are feeding on something
> that is not visible. But they are doing great.
> 
> Anyone did the same?
> 

I don't use bare tanks for breeding or for raising fry for exactly this
reason. With killies, I like to remove the fish from a well-established
tank with a sponge filter, gravel, and plants, then plunk the killie fry
in that tank as they hatch. They seem to do much better than in bare
containers even when I feed brine shrimp nauplii to both. And I can leave
town for a weekend (or even a week!) and my fish-sitter doesn't have to
feed those tanks.

Don

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