Re: [Killietalk] Small fry food

["Joseph S." <nonamethefish at gmail_com>]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:38:04 -0500, Duane Wake <dwake at iopener_net> wrote:
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> In the old days in order to feed small fry you almost needed an infusoria culture that got pretty smelly at times. Today there are several products that I use plus green water that work quite well. Liquifry #1 for egglayers and Hikari`s First Bites. With Liquifry you need to be careful not to use too much, I put a small drop on my little finger and make sure it`s a small one, if too much just shake off some, better to error on the short side than to pollute the water. Of course I change about 80 % of the water every day that has some salt added. First bites is almost a powder that does not stick together in the moist air of a fish room and is easy to spinkle on the water. One other tip I got from a Jim Gasior article about raising up fry is to rub your finger on the bottom fry container, if it`s slimey, clean it up before it kills the fry. Also in the July/ August issue of JAKA is an excellent article by Bob Morenski on how to keep them going with small filters. Hope some !
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I have some Hikari first bites which I used for some montezumae fry as
I hadn't tried setting up a BS hatcher yet(but will need to soon).
"One other tip I got from a Jim Gasior article about raising up fry is
to rub your finger on the bottom fry container, if it`s slimey, clean
it up before it kills the fry."...what exactly does "clean up" mean? A
waterchange I'm assuming?

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