Re: raising australe on microworms

["Joseph Ponnath" <jponnath at hotmail_com>]

What else might I be doing wrong? 
Thanks. 
Joseph.

Hi Joseph,
I'll tell you what has worked for me. I keep my orange australe fry in cups early on like you do but I fill the cup with water instead of keeping them in only 1 inch. I don't add any snail or java moss. I do change the water daily with water out of the tank that the cup is floating in. I also change about 75%, but only once each day. After a couple of weeks I move them to a small bowl, then about a month later I move them to a small tank. About half of my orange australe fry won't eat newly hatched bbs, but they will eat the tiniest microworms. Personally, I have found microworms to be a great addition to my fishroom. I have used them for well over 10 years. They come in handy when I forget to start a new shrimp bowl also.
I ran a test with a split batch of notho guentheri feeding half bbs and the other half microworms. The results surprised me in that they grew at the same rate. I expected the fry that were fed microworms to grow slower. There was a variable in the test in that the fry fed bbs got as much as they could eat, but only 1 feeding per day. The fry that got microworms also got only 1 feeding per day but I fed more of them because they didn't die and foul the water. Thus they got to eat them for several hours. Not scientific, but informational for me.
Take care,
Joe in St. Louis






 






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