Fry

[Wz10]

What exactly do you guys feed your fry from newly hatched to adulthood?
Tryna figure the main idea and see what I can do from there!

[Oldfishlady]

Since I use a natural method to spawn-my systems can support fry for a week-10 days from the microorganisms/infusoria-then I start feeding newly hatched BBS-I only feed newly hatched BBS with the yolk sac intact for the first 2-3 weeks for best nutrition-the NHBBS are pretty small at this stage and contain the needed HUFA for the fry.

After the fry are 3-4 weeks of age they get NHBBS and BBS supplemented with HUFA.

Based on fry size-I start feeding my homemade food, mosquito larva, daphania and other aquatic critters I collect in my rain barrels.

Usually by 2-3 months I start them on processed food to wean them off live and homemade.

I fed microworms for the first time this year and I had a bad experience....I don't think I something right...so I don't blame the microworms.....they are easy to culture, harvest-but it must have been something about the way I fed them......But a lot of breeder use MW successfully.....

[Wz10]

Hmmm idk. Probs get BBS + MW and maybe some daphnia I guess...
I remember you had a tutorial on your outdoor spawning?
Care to link? :)

[Oldfishlady]

Its not a tutorial per se...but a thread.....
http://www.bettafish.com/showthread.php?t=47192

[lvandert]

I start with microworms 2-3 days after free swimming. After two weeks or so I start mixing in BBS and by week 3 I start mixing in Hikari First Bites newborn food. Sadly thats as far as I got, but I presumed I would have started mixing in crushed pellets by week 5-6

[jeffegg2]

When free swimming micro worms. After a few days I continue microworms and add a few bbs newly hatched. After 1 week it is mostly bbs and a few microworms for the late starters. I always add the microworms first as it helps even the larger fry to have a varied diet. At about 3 weeks it is mostly bbs. Today at three weeks I gave them a pinch of finely ground flake food. I did see some of them testing it. If they eat some it is vitamin enriched!

You can see which ones are eating the bbs as they get huge pink bellies.

Jeff.