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>From: Mach Fukada <fukada at aloha.net>
>To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
>Subject: Re: [RML] Breeding tanks
>Date: 13, Jun 2000 11:05 AM
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> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Wright Huntley wrote:
> I have been experimenting with intesnive culture of rotifers. Basically
> they have replaced my needs for artemia for the smaller fish. So far I
> have found that you can't really over feed with the rotifers. I get lazy
> also and just flood the tank with rotifers and sit back. The brackish
> water strains worked well with Pseudomugi cyanodorsalis and
> P. signifer. Keeping the marine microalgae going was a pain...
> MTF
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>> If there are a lot of plants, hence rotifers, paramecia, etc., then the
>> amounts I suggested just feed the infusoria. AFAIK *no** baby fish ever eat
>> Liquifry. Some surface feeders will eat egg/fish compounds like OSI's "APR."
>> Such baby foods are mostly to feed the microcritters that will squirm right
>> under their noses and trigger the "munch" reflex. For that you need a rich
>> soup of live critters such as green water (Euglena species) and smaller
>> paramecia.
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>> Many babies hatch and start eating immediately. The ones with any
>> significant yolk sac are often like baby cichlids or Bettas where the
>> parents can fan and guard them.
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>> I like to really overfeed babies. I therefore add some snails after all the
>> eggs have hatched. The snails eat excess food and turn it into fairly inert
>> pellets and infusoria fodder. Rotting foods are deadly as you suggest.
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