Re: [RML] Breeding tanks
Mach Fukada (fukada at aloha.net)
Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:05:35 -1000 (HST)
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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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