Fabulous fry food - Aquarium Advice

itafx · 05-04-2007, 01:23 AM

I take a small white pail to my pond, submerge it and leave it there for an hour or 2. When I come back it's filled with thousands of tiny swimming things that the fry love. The white pail must be a particular attractant.

Algenco · 05-06-2007, 11:43 PM

probably daphnia, which are also a natural laxative. Feed once or twice a week.

racialfish · 05-09-2007, 09:10 PM

Your lucky, I have to make stinky insofuria.

itafx · 10-12-2007, 11:12 PM

Well, it worked fine in the spring, but in the summer they weren't attracted, so I guess it's a seasonal thing...

gu2high · 10-19-2007, 09:24 PM

What kind of pail? Does it contain any food remains?

itafx · 10-19-2007, 10:38 PM

Just a plain white pail approx 1 gal. No attractant except the white color.

gu2high · 10-19-2007, 10:53 PM

daphnia like light. The white pail may look bright and attractive to them.

kribensis12 · 10-22-2007, 06:42 PM

How do you get infursia( without sitting something outside?). I have made my own fishfood, which is a large mixture since i collect fishfood( technically), here is what i but in it: crunched up omega one tropical flake, crunched up O.S.I. angelfish flake,, crunched up O.S.I. Color Flake, Crunched up Tetramin regular, and Color enhanced, Crunched up Spirlaina Flake, Crunched up Hikari flake( regular), Powederd live bearer food( with tubeifex), and a few other things, but it works like a charm. I grew out baby convicts in 1 month!! I sold them at one inch, but i also did twice weekly water changes.

itafx · 10-22-2007, 09:38 PM

I had a batch of 25 Giant Danio fry that were growing slowly in a 46 gal planted tank, just getting what they could in the tank. When they got a little bigger, I started crushing up TetraMin tropical crisps between my thumb and index finger and dropping it through a fish net to strain out any flakes that are too big. I've been feeding them several x per day like this and the resulting growth has been phenomenal.

The hard part is the first few weeks after they hatch. In your crushed mixture, do you use it to make a slurry like infusoria or do you feed it dry? Did you start off your convicts on it initially? Do you know how the size of newly hatched convict and danio fry compare?

05-04-2007, 01:23 AM	#1
itafx Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 402 Images: 12	Fabulous fry food I take a small white pail to my pond, submerge it and leave it there for an hour or 2. When I come back it's filled with thousands of tiny swimming things that the fry love. The white pail must be a particular attractant.

05-09-2007, 09:10 PM	#3
racialfish Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Omaha Nebraska Posts: 31	Your lucky, I have to make stinky insofuria. __________________ you win some and you lose some.

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05-06-2007, 11:43 PM	#2
Algenco Aquarium Advice Activist Join Date: May 2007 Location: Kentucky Posts: 103	probably daphnia, which are also a natural laxative. Feed once or twice a week.

10-12-2007, 11:12 PM	#4
itafx Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 402 Images: 12	Well, it worked fine in the spring, but in the summer they weren't attracted, so I guess it's a seasonal thing...

10-19-2007, 09:24 PM	#5
gu2high Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Central NJ Posts: 355	What kind of pail? Does it contain any food remains?

10-19-2007, 10:38 PM	#6
itafx Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 402 Images: 12	Just a plain white pail approx 1 gal. No attractant except the white color.

10-19-2007, 10:53 PM	#7
gu2high Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Central NJ Posts: 355	daphnia like light. The white pail may look bright and attractive to them.

10-22-2007, 06:42 PM	#8
kribensis12 Aquarium Advice Apprentice Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 36	How do you get infursia( without sitting something outside?). I have made my own fishfood, which is a large mixture since i collect fishfood( technically), here is what i but in it: crunched up omega one tropical flake, crunched up O.S.I. angelfish flake,, crunched up O.S.I. Color Flake, Crunched up Tetramin regular, and Color enhanced, Crunched up Spirlaina Flake, Crunched up Hikari flake( regular), Powederd live bearer food( with tubeifex), and a few other things, but it works like a charm. I grew out baby convicts in 1 month!! I sold them at one inch, but i also did twice weekly water changes.

10-22-2007, 09:38 PM	#9
itafx Aquarium Advice Freak Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Virginia Posts: 402 Images: 12	I had a batch of 25 Giant Danio fry that were growing slowly in a 46 gal planted tank, just getting what they could in the tank. When they got a little bigger, I started crushing up TetraMin tropical crisps between my thumb and index finger and dropping it through a fish net to strain out any flakes that are too big. I've been feeding them several x per day like this and the resulting growth has been phenomenal. The hard part is the first few weeks after they hatch. In your crushed mixture, do you use it to make a slurry like infusoria or do you feed it dry? Did you start off your convicts on it initially? Do you know how the size of newly hatched convict and danio fry compare?