Re: [Killietalk] Slow growing fry

["Karl Doering" <kilikarl at bignet_net>]

As a friend once told me "You have to do the work" ! Who was that mask man 
did he leave a Silver Bullet???
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Capt Morgan" <mort_ssbn630 at yahoo_com>
To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Slow growing fry


>   As a friend once told me "You have to do the work" ! What does that 
> actually mean, well "feeling" your "doing the work" isn't the same as 
> "doing it".
>    I'll translate that further. Taking in consideration all the below is 
> fine, BUT, you HAVE to do it. "Thinking" the water looked fine, and I'm 
> feeding the fry "good" (by the way which was once or twice in the evening 
> on bbs), and scaping up some frozen. By the way I usually "do" Fp., which 
> were STILL taking forever to sex out it seem, maybe 5 mths (yeah really).
>    Anyhoo, not really changing much else, and getting tired of hearing 
> "You have to feed them", I started getting up before work and "shooting" 
> in a bit more BBS than usual, and then when I got home. I find a MUST, is 
> plants, usually Java Moss and snail, I prefer the Red Rams. Anyway, in 
> about 2 weeks or less I started adding Grindals (the food of the Gods), 
> once I added these, which I still fight with, they shot off the blocks. In 
> less than two weeks later I added white worms, fighting with those too.
>     Anyway, when all was said and done, my 6 mth unsexed fry went to 
> sexing out in 2 - 3 months. I even had some celiae, definitely slow, and 
> then, I was surprised to see a difference in just 2 weeks.
>     All I or anyone else can tell you is, "You have to do the work". 
> Problem is this too, if they don't get a good start, you'll never see the 
> potential. Those little suckers eat like eating Chinese food, 15 minutes 
> later (probably 5 in their case), their eating again. Thats the reason for 
> the other "stuff", it helps create the banquet they can feast on during 
> the day, UNLESS "ur" a fortunate AARP member.
>     So in a nutshell, the most dramatic change for me came with just the 
> diet! So figure in "more work", and you'll get even probably added 
> results.
>  "And that's the rest of the story ..."
>  Cap'n Morgan
>
>  Don Mortenson
>  Capt Morgan <mort_ssbn630 at yahoo_com>
>
>  PS. Happy New Year everyone ...
>
>  2. The foods being fed. (And how often)
> 1. The species of fish.
> 3. Water conditions.
> 5. Temperature.
> 4. Lighting.
>
>
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