Re: [Killietalk] couple newbie questions

[LeeH920226 at aol_com]

In a message dated 11/5/05 8:44:16 AM, gary1218 at rochester_rr.com writes:

<< 
I'm just getting ready to set up my first few tanks for raising killies.  I
was wondering if you guys worry at all about the bottom color of the tank.
My tanks will be sitting on plywood.  Normally I have my tanks resting on a
piece of light blue stryfoam.

 

For those of you raising your spawning pairs in heavily planted tanks and
letting the eggs/fry stay in the tank with the parents, do you add food for
the fry - newly hatched brine shrimp, microworms, etc.?  Or do you just let
the fry feed off what the find amongst all the plants till they're big
enough to start feeding off what you feed the parents? >>

    I think anything medium to dark as a color beneath a glass bottom tank is 
OK. White seems to fade the colors of the killifish. I would not personally 
like red or purple.
    I feed newly hatched brine shrimp to my breeding fish every day if I have 
excess from feeding separately raised fry. This is almost every day. Newly 
hatched brine shrimp is cheaper and easier than any other live food unless you 
can collect it yourself.

Lee Harper
Media, PA
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