Freeding fry tips?

[Ma xiong]

How do you feed brine shrimp to fry without getting the shells inside with the shrimp, also has anybody here fed first bite to the fry yet?

[Oldfishlady]

The way I harvest and feed brine shrimp to Betta fry...

First-I remove the airstone in the BBS hatchery and let the BBS settle-you can use a flashlight and let it sit for about 5 min and the BBS will be drawn to the light too.

Once the BBS have gathered in one area-I will use airline hose and siphon them through a Brine shrimp net I have resting over an empty container to catch the water.

I pour this water back into the hatchery-Then I rinse the collected BBS under running water-I don't want any hatchery water in my fry tank.

I rinse that container and fill with like temp dechlorinated water to rest the brine shrimp net with the BBS-then I use an eyedropper to collect the BBS to target feed the Betta fry.

I only feed newly hatched BBS with their yolk sac intact to my Betta fry 3-4 weeks and younger- if BBS is the only live food source I am feeding to provide the most nutrition for the Betta fry.
Poor nutrition in the first month can result in mass die offs.....

[Ma xiong]

Ok so i could feed it when the fry just hatched and could i also feed hikari first bite

[Curlyfatbottom]

U could but its just going to make a messy inside your tank
Baby betta a bit on the slow side
If it don't move it's not food to them

[jeffegg2]

+1

Live food is recommended for Betta fry whenever possible.

Anything else will probably sit on the bottom to turn into ammonia, toxic to the fry.

Jeff.

[Ma xiong]

I fed the frys n they are eating and have big orange tummys

[tpocicat]

YAY!!! Great start for your fry.

[jeffegg2]

Pictures tell a thousand words!!!

Pictures please!

Jeff.

[Ma xiong]

ill try to get pictures up, my camera isnt that good
Well they are 5 days old today, i see 1 runt in the group and i can see some tails already
Theres about 35 only because the male was a egg eater so i saved the remaining eggs and artifically hatched them