Re: Pertensis Fry

["Tim Ellis" <timellis33@hotmail.com>]

>From: Ken Laidlaw <K.Laidlaw@roe.ac.uk>
>To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>Subject: Re: Pertensis Fry
>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:23:01 +0100 (British Summer Time)
>Reply-To: apisto@majordomo.pobox.com
>
>Jason,
>
>You are right about getting them started on the pickings
>found in the well established tank.  Baby brine shrimp is 
>almost definately the best fry food, and really not that 
>much hassle especially if you use the type with the shells 
>removed.  This is more expensive than the shell on ones but 
>if you are not into producing lots of fry then probably the 
>easiest option.  There is also frozen bbs available but I 
>haven't tried it.
>
>A micro-worm culture is another option, but can take a 
>little looking after and can get a bit smelly if you keep 
>it in the house (it needs about 70f to do well).
>
>Powdered fry foods could be worth trying although fry don't 
>seem to want to eat this and grouth would be much slower 
>than if they were fed bbs.
>
>Once the fry are a bit bigger you can move on to grindal 
>worms or frozen cyclops.
>
>Good luck, but I would say that the pertensis fry were 
>worth some effort as they are rare. I have never seen them 
>in the UK.
>
>Ken.
>
> 
>
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>Ken Laidlaw
>UK Astronomy Technology Centre
>Royal Observatory, Edinburgh
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I am sure everyone already knows this but, here is my two cents, 
decapsulated brine shrimp eggs are very cheap and are more nutritious 
than the kind you have to hatch, not to mention extremely simple to use. 
I feed live bbs twice a day and supplement with decapsulated in between. 
I get them both from Brine Shrimp Direct through the mail. I can not 
remember the exact price but the decaps are about 2 or 3 U.S. Dollars 
for a package that will last for months, and the hatching ones were 
about 5 or 6 dollars for 2.5 oz.(That is a lot of eggs for the buck!) 
Hope this helps.

Tim Ellis

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