Re: [RML] Iriatherina werneri

Bruce Hansen (bruceh at powerup.com.au)
Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:10:40 +1000

Newly hatched BS have superb nutritional complexity for small aquarium
fishes for the purpose of conditioning to breed - collecting mosquito rafts
for the breeders tanks is also excellent. Some larger mosquito larvae are
too big for even adult werneri to eat

Regards,
Bruce.

Bruce Hansen, A.N.G.F.A., Advancing Australian Aquatics.

In Brisbane, where we seem to have had over 10 feet of rain this year and
most of it on weekends when I'd like to go collecting :-(

Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: Adrian Tappin <atappin at ecn.net.au>
To: <rainbowfish at pcug.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, 9 November 1999 5:45
Subject: Re: [RML] Iriatherina werneri
>
> If you can try to feed them mostly newly hatched brine shrimp. In my
> experience they really love them and it gave me my best results. You could
> really notice the increase in egg numbers after they had a bellyful of
live
> shrimp. I don't have any scientific data to confirm this but I think this
> give the fry a better start in life as well. You can see the eggs are a
> different colour and they look a lot healthier. But then that just might
be
> my imagination :-)
>