Bacter AE in place of infusoria???

[gwand]

My Apistogramma cacatuoides has spawn a second time. Mom is herding the brood better this time and dad is guarding better. I do not have infusoria to feed the minuscule fry so I’m trying a solution of Bacter AE. Does anyone think this is a substitution that will work? I’m raising brine shrimp to replace Bacter AE when the fry are larger.

 

[Magnum Man]

I doubt it would be a direct replacement, but rather it would better bolster other foods

I would suspect baby brine shrimp for that class of fish…
I haven’t bought any of this yet, but have been looking at it as a supplement to brine, and Bacter, when I get to that point…

Amazon.com

 

[OldFishKeeper]

I doubt it would be a direct replacement, but rather it would better bolster other foods

I would suspect baby brine shrimp for that class of fish…
I haven’t bought any of this yet, but have been looking at it as a supplement to brine, and Bacter, when I get to that point…

Amazon.com

I have had good success with vinegar eels with fry of dwarf cichlids...sometimes difficult to find but well worth the effort. Edit: And easy to feed and maintain a colony.

 

[Colin_T]

I just used newly hatched brineshrimp for baby cichlids. Microworms or vinegar eels would probably work too.

 

[MaloK]

If you don't want to break your back:
Interpet Liquifry mixed with powdered flakes.

I'm lazy.

 

[gwand]

If you don't want to break your back:
Interpet Liquifry mixed with powdered flakes.

I'm lazy.

What is interpret liquidfry?

 

[gwand]

I just used newly hatched brineshrimp for baby cichlids. Microworms or vinegar eels would probably work too.

These cacatuoides fry are really tiny. I have never seen such small fry.

 

[MaloK]

What is interpret liquidfry?

A specialized liquid food for fish fry. Interpet Liquifry No1 is formulated for Egg laying fish.

 

[OldFishKeeper]

These cacatuoides fry are really tiny. I have never seen such small fry.

Same with betta fry...

 

[Colin_T]

A number of companies make liquid fry foods, not just Interpet. You can make your own liquid fry food with a boiled egg yolk, which is what most liquid fry foods are made of.

EMERGENCY FRY FOOD
Some fry like labyrinth fry (Bettas & Gouramis) and Iriatherina werneri are very small when they first hatch and need green water or infusoria. If you can't get these you can hard boil an egg. Remove the shell and white part. Push the yellow yolk through a handkerchief into a small container of dechlorinated water. Put the lid on the container and shake it up, then use an eye dropper to suck some of the egg yolk solution out and put it in the tank with the babies. Do this 3-5 times per day for the first 2 weeks then start adding newly hatched brineshrimp.

Boil another egg each day and make a new solution each day. Keep the solution in the fridge when not using it. Take the solution out of the fridge and let it warm up to room temperature for 10 minutes or so before using it in the fry tank.

Do regular partial water changes on the fry tank or have a small air operated sponge filter in it to keep the water clean. The egg yolk can cause ammonia levels to go up and without water changes or a filter the fry will die from polluted water.

Back to Basics when Breeding Fish

STARTING OUT Make sure you have a pair, (1 male + 1 female). There is nothing worse than spending your hard-earned dollars buying a couple of fish to try and breed and ending up with a pair of fish of the same sex. Let's face it, to reproduce fish you need a male and a female. Two males won't do...

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[Back in the fold]

These cacatuoides fry are really tiny. I have never seen such small fry.

My lineatus fry are small but they take BBS from day one and I would think that any cichlid would because they have to absorb their yolk sac before they’re free swimming .

 

[GaryE]

I raised many broods of cacatuoides directly in freshly hatched artemia. They also take microworms, but there's less nutrition. What infusoria they got came from java moss on the first few days.

 

[Back in the fold]

I raised many broods of cacatuoides directly in freshly hatched artemia. They also take microworms, but there's less nutrition. What infusoria they got came from java moss on the first few days.

I keep hearing about infusoria on Java Moss but an article in The Journal of The American Killifish Association claims that microscope analysis proves that wrong . A guy can almost see paramecium with the naked eye so what else could be there .

 

[MaloK]

Paramecium is a good first food for many fish fry, including Apistos, as it is small enough for them to consume...

What else could be there... Something that paramecium feeds on Sure that paramecium alone is not enough but it's something and they feed on something.

 

[GaryE]

Ahh, well they grazed on the java moss. Micro-doritos?

Whatever it was, it was a supplement, not the main meal. At that size, I expect they can see bacteria, so maybe that was the food.