Re: small fish

[Dave Gomberg <gomberg@wcf.com>]

At 04:23 PM 9/19/98 EDT, Kaycy wrote:
<< Believe it or not, try adding finely ground basic flake food. I have had
> growth spurts with my young apistos that did the same thing. Once I
> figured out just adding basic flake to the diet, I would feed the fry
> the first couple weeks with the live BBS and then started adding the
> basic flakes and didn't have a problem with the growth rate. I think
> that feeding them just the live BBS and worms is still lacking something
> in the diet that the basic flake gives them.

Actually, I have raised some of the easier West Africans entirely on
naturally occurring plankton in a well planted tank plus mashed flake food.
 No live food whatever other than the bugs in a real tank.  Makes you
wonder, doesn't it?

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Dave Gomberg, San Francisco            mailto:gomberg@wcf.com
FormMaestro                              <http://www.wcf.com>
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