Need baby fish help!?!?!

[fishfanatic]

Originally Posted by jetajockey

you can accomplish the same thing by taking pellets or flakes and grinding them in a mortar and pestle. Or putting them in a bag and smashing the crap out of them with a hammer or some other heavy blunt object.

Boiled egg yolk works also but use it very sparingly.

Live foods are best, though, they don't foul up the water nearly as fast, and some fish seem to be picky about foods and only go for stuff that wiggles.

Lol, can you buy live microworms? Or are they all freeze dried?

[Esoteric Backbone]

You could probably go to a bait shop and find some there.

[fishfanatic]

Originally Posted by GrimmGoby

You could probably go to a bait shop and find some there.

No bait shops around here... Utah is land locked lol

[jetajockey]

microworms? they are live, and tiny. They are actually nematodes, not actual worms. Bait shops don't carry something like that.

[fishfanatic]

Originally Posted by jetajockey

microworms? they are live, and tiny. They are actually nematodes, not actual worms. Bait shops don't carry something like that.

Are they sold at PETCO? Are they in those refrigerators?

[Esoteric Backbone]

Originally Posted by jetajockey

microworms? they are live, and tiny. They are actually nematodes, not actual worms. Bait shops don't carry something like that.

Oh they don't? Good to know, it was suggested to me, but I never had the time to check.

[Esoteric Backbone]

PetCo definately doesn't sell them I've looked..

[fishfanatic]

Originally Posted by GrimmGoby

PetCo definately doesn't sell them I've looked..

[jetajockey]

No, you likely won't find a microworm culture except online or possibly through a fish club. You could always ask a LFS, but a chain store employee will look at you like you are speaking greek. The cultures don't cost much, just a few dollars. I usually sell a large starter culture with fresh media for 6 or 7 dollars

[fishfanatic]

Originally Posted by jetajockey

No, you likely won't find a microworm culture except online or possibly through a fish club. You could always ask a LFS, but a chain store employee will look at you like you are speaking greek. The cultures don't cost much, just a few dollars. I usually sell a large starter culture with fresh media for 6 or 7 dollars

I don't know what a culture is...

[jetajockey]

a starter culture is the material and organisms that you start with to create and maintain your own culture with.

Basically, all it takes is something like oats and yeast to keep microworms breeding and alive, but you first need some microworms, so you get some from someone who has them (usually in an oat/yeast medium as well).

[fishfanatic]

Thanks for your help I will look into getting a culture.