Betta Fry Food :0)

[aly_starh]

Been researching for some time now,
I know once the bettas are free swimming (horizontly), thats when you start feeding them, but what do you feed them with.

Options are, microworms, green water, daphnia, brineshrimp eggs, to name a few

Want to stay clear of brineshrimp (overfeeding causes swim bladder)

A few questions:
-There is also boiled egg yolk. Which is the easiest for me to get a hold of. Should the 'live foods' be varied? will also give crushed flake with which ever live food given, but reading some websites it says fry dont like flakes, but i know pippoodle has used them with success.
-green water, advisable? anyone ever used it?
-live cultures, would probarly go with micro worms as they are the 'easiest' apparently, do i start culture 3 weeks before spawn, does it ever go stale?

Any other help on feeding fry would be Fab!

Thanks!

 

[betta fish]

Hiya, I have only ever used microworms/walterworms on my spawns they are the easiest to culture and the fry seem to do well on it but it does indeed go stale after usually about two weeks it will get darker in colour and smell rather vinegary that is the time to make a new one

 

[kelly528]

Variation is key... just try as many foods as you can reasonably get your hands on. I highly recommend BBS... they are ridiculously easy to hatch (it takes like 15 minutes out of your life) and have insane protein content.

 

[aly_starh]

Well, knowing me, i will probarly change my mind again,
but the current food list is,

vinegar eel
green water
microworms
egg yolk
grated bloodworm
*Possibly* crushed pellets/flake

I think, thats a nice variety, just got in contact with a experienced breeder, who cultures live food, they reccomend 4 weeks max, as its the first time im going to culture live foods. So will get them in soon.

thanks for info

 

[Inchworm]

Hi betta_246

I'd just like to give you a word of caution about using egg yolks. It spoils very quickly and gets moldy as well as polluting the water. It might be difficult to clean up in a tank with tiny fry that you want to keep swimming on the very top.

 

[aly_starh]

Hi betta_246

I'd just like to give you a word of caution about using egg yolks. It spoils very quickly and gets moldy as well as polluting the water. It might be difficult to clean up in a tank with tiny fry that you want to keep swimming on the very top.

ok thanks for letting me know, the person i was contacting just recommended not using that aswell,

 

[OohFeeshy]

Baby brine shrimp shouldn't cause a problem if they're decapsulated first.