How Often To Feed Fry?

[hookertoo]

I am going out of town for 5 days. I have someone looking in on my fish but he comes every other day. How can I keep my guppy fry fed? they are about a week old and are in a 5g tank.

 

[Annastasia]

Hmm, ideally you'd want to feed the fry a few times a day, but I understand your dilemma here. If possible, could you see if he could come at least once a day, just to give them a little fry food? What I would also do is put a lot of live plants (including floating plants) in the tank with them. The fry will eat little microorganisms from there.

 

[helterskelter]

They will be fine just make sure they are not over feed.

i feed mine though 2-3 times a day for best growth rates.

 

[hookertoo]

Hmm, ideally you'd want to feed the fry a few times a day, but I understand your dilemma here. If possible, could you see if he could come at least once a day, just to give them a little fry food? What I would also do is put a lot of live plants (including floating plants) in the tank with them. The fry will eat little microorganisms from there.

Hey that sounds like good advice. I have just the perfect plants for that too.

 

[StatMan]

When facing a similar problem myself I had some liquifry food in a trap with the fry, it tends to hang around fora coule of days and they can pick at it as they wish