RE: bbs and science

[Matthew Bourne <matthewb@hothouse.com.au>]

Hi Hans,

>I just wanted to warn you about bbs. A few years ago I started breeding and
>I had some fry of my angelfish. So I needed to hatch bbs. I bought eggs at
>the local, trustworthy, petshop and started. I did everything right , but
>they didn't hatch at all. Apparently, these eggs had been in the store for
>God knows how long and had lost their 'live' (sorry, I know what I want to
>say in Dutch, but I guess not many of you will understand). The fry died of
>hunger. So watch out for really old eggs, the results decrease with age.
>When I got fresh eggs, at first I was measuring everything to the milligram.
>After a while I got sloppy and I have to say that bbs are not very
>(understatement) sensitive.

My view here would be to de-encapsulate them and then feed unhatched...
either way its food... and from reading various articles around the
traps, the de-encapsulated eggs are higher in protein.

Cheers
Matt
>


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