Re: Feeding Microworms to fry?

["Cory and Susanne Williamson" <webwill@infinet.net>]

Bob,

What kind of substrate (if any) do you use in your fry tanks and filters-  I
have been rehydrating the cysts and then I use an eyedropper to place the
cysts as closely to the substrate as possible (I turn off the filter too). I
was worried about them not finding all the cysts and having them rot in the
tank. I found that the bonus of having live brine shrimp was that the fish
always seemed to find all the bs and clean them all up within about half an
hour-

Cory Williamson
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From: IDMiamiBob@aol.com <IDMiamiBob@aol.com>
To: apisto@admin.listbox.com <apisto@admin.listbox.com>
Date: April 26, 1999 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: Feeding Microworms to fry?


>Cory writes:
>
>> To that end, has anyone on the list tried decapsulated bs- I recently
>>  purchased some and I am interested to know what peoples thoughts and
>>  experiences are. So far my fish seem to like them, although they do not
eat
>>  unhatched cysts as fast as the hatched bs.
>>
>I am using decapsulated BS eggs almost exclusively.  I currently have three
>coonsecutive hatches of A cacatuoides that were hatched in very
algae-ridden
>tanks.  I left them with "Mom for varying amounts of time, and started
>feeding the de-cap on day 4.  They survived just fine on the nasties in the
>algae until then.  They have never seen live BBS, and are doing great.
>Growth is as good as or slightly better than when I used BBS.  For the
first
>week of de-cap, I hold a pinch under the water and stir it in.  After that,
I
>start sprinkling it on the surface and let the filter current slowly drive
it
>in over time.  The fish will sometimes leave the bottom and hover at
mid-tank
>for more than an hour, snatching at the de-cap as it sinks.  This allows
for
>a longer feeding period, which I figure is closer to the way they eat in
the
>wild.
>
>Bob Dixon
>
>
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