Fry Food

[Dorkhedeos]

i need help choosing between microworms and vinegar eels. which can be fed to most fry until they can eat frozen or other "normal" food? which would you choose? i know most of you will say bbs, but i hate raising them. thanks

 

[Dorkhedeos]

well, im about to order something, so i need a little more votes.

 

[Inchworm]

Hi Dorkhedeos

I have no experience with the vinegar eels, but I do keep microworms to feed to my fry. They work fine for cory fry and I've given them to guppy fry too. Microworms are easy to culture and you can keep the same batch going for years. It's a good staple food for fry.

I am particularly fond of microworms because they will remain alive in the water for some time and when the time comes to clean up, they are not too hard to remove from a bare bottom tank.

Once the fry are big enough to eat other foods, it's a good idea to get them started. How soon this will be, of course, depends on the kind of fry you have. I find my little corys will continue to snack on them long after I have started them on more substantial fare.

 

[Rez]

i need help choosing between microworms and vinegar eels. which can be fed to most fry until they can eat frozen or other "normal" food? which would you choose? i know most of you will say bbs, but i hate raising them. thanks

I have read that vinegar eels have a really poor nutritional value for fish, especially for growing fry. I would choose microworms for newborn fry. I personally have never used either, but at least microworms are at least grown in a nutrient-rich environment. The best fry growout foods that I have found are spirulina fed brine shrimp and, after the fry have grown, I feed them Grindal worms which have been fed Gerber oatmeal cereal with spirulina powder mixed in. I have found that the fry grow noticeably faster as well as getting more vibrant coloring with the spirulina fed live food. I don't see a reason why you could not add spirulina powder to the microworm culture as well.


Rez B)