[Killietalk] Food Slurry a raging Success!

[lehmann at jlab_org]

  Fellow Killinuts!

   I would like to report on the success that
    I am having with a new food mix combined
    with a tank setup that is producing loads
    of fry without picking eggs, etc.

   Starting with a ten gallon tank I put one
    box filter weighed with marbles and filled
    with pillow floss (very cheap in bulk from
    discount stores). I add two Jiffy 7 peat
    pellets, put a clump of Java moss on the
    bottom of the tank and add a layer of floating
    plants (in some cases Giant Salvinia) or
    watersprite. After setting this tank up with
    water from my storage tank that is less than
    30ppm hardness, I wait one day, then add one
    young pair of Aphyosemions.
   I feed them a slurry of the following components:
    1.Frozen Hikari brand bloodworms, thawed and
      rinsed.
    2.Freshly hatched baby brine shrimp
    3.Small amount of Golden pearls fish food (from
      Kens fish supply online) OR
    4. Small amount of very small crumbles (from
       Tim Addis)   And
    5. Small amount of freeze dried Cyclops-eeze

    I use a turkey baster to feed this slurry mix
    to all of my tanks once a day. (note: I stir
    the mixture before filling the baster).

    I change 70% of the water in this tank after
     five days to keep it from going too acid due
     to the peat from the peat pellets. Then I switch
     to 70% water changes every ten days.

    After a couple of weeks in this tank I have
     to put a nylon stocking over the plastic strainer
     on the end of the hose I use to drain the tanks.
     The nylon stocking is necessary to keep from
     sucking up the many fry that have started to
     appear!

    Every tank that I have setup this way has produced
     large amounts of fry in the tank. It has worked
     very well with A. australe (both red orange and
     chocolate) A. cognatum, A. louessense RPC 33,
     A. ahli Kribi, A. elberti Ntui and Matapit,
     Fp. gard Mamfense, A marginatum Bifoun and Bengui
     and a number of others! It is very efficient at
     producing large numbers of healthy fry and great
     looking adults.
    I experimented to come up with this setup as I
live
     a hundred mile round trip from the nearest
     reliable source of black worms (too far now).
This
     diet feeds fry even when you don't see them!

     Try this out, it works!

               Regards,

            Monty Lehmann





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