Re: [Killietalk] Feeding Fp.gardneri (P-82) fry

[Nick Ternes <woodland_gardens at sbcglobal_net>]

All of my fish (killies and others) get live adult brine once or twice per week, depending if I can drive the 30 min to the store that sells it.  (After which an egg laying frenzy ensues... my gardneri, celebese rainbows, and praecox rainbows go nuts after a water change and live food feeding)  Occasional fruit flies and chopped redworms.  Very occasionally blackworms, although after losing a pair of freshwater stingrays to a chilondella infection, I don't like to use them.  Frozen brine, bloodworms, mysis, and squid finely chopped.  My fish are all eating machines and readily accept flakes, of which I feed a varied diet: garlic, spirulina, brine, daphnia, tetramin, nutrafin max, as well as freeze dried daphnia and bloodworms.  
Fry get golden pearls, decapsulated brine shrimp eggs, microworms, grindals, and crushed flake.  I have a vinegar eel culture that isn't quite mature enough to harvest.  I will hopefully be getting a white worm culture soon.
Nick

Charles Harrison <charles at inkmkr_com> wrote:
>I feed my fry and adults gardneri the baby brine shrimp that have just
>hatched ... I don't let the shrimp live past 6 - 12 hours after hatching. I
>occasionally feed the adult gardneri frozen adult brine shrimp and 1/4 inch
>pieces of live earth worms (but twice a day I feed them live baby brine
>shrimp).
>
>Richard Brice


This is good advice. Even the adults can survive on fresh 
newly hatched BBS for years.
It might be a good time to start learning about other live food 
culturing, grindals, etc.
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