What Do You Feed Betta Fry

[expert11]

can you buy fry food from your local petshop i havnt been to an aqaurium shop for awhile but my bettas have eggs i have never bred them before and i want to know what to feed them.

 

[starrynightxxi]

well, male and female bettas should really not be kept in the same tank, and if this is a community tank, it's doubtful any of the babies will survive, also the male may become sick from the stress of trying to protect his eggs/hatchlings. Or he may just end up eating them.

That aside you generally feed baby bettas baby brine shrimp, which you have to hatch yourself, so you'll need to set up a hatchery (i believe there's a pinned article for a DIY hatchery) and buy the eggs. with the short notice you'll have to buy them from the pet store which is not the best place, really. In a pinch i believe you can feed them powdered boiled egg yolk, but most breeders around here don't use that so I have no idea of its effectiveness.

 

[starrynightxxi]

double post

 

[ElectricMayhem]

Expert11, where abouts in Australia are you? If it's anywhere in SE Queensland I have a microworm culture I can clone for you for the first few days of the baby fishies lives, but after that they're really going to need some BBS as the microworms are only fat and protein, not nutritious enough. There's a good DIY hatchery on here somewhere, and you can buy the brine shrimp eggs at a LFS. In a pinch, some people use egg yolk for the first few days [boil an egg, get a bit of the yolk out, smoosh it up with some water and use a spray bottle to spray the water surface] but this pollutes the water REALLY quickly.

I'm not sure from your post if your bettas are in a community tank or not, but it's best if they're seperated unless you've planned a spawn. Good luck with the bubs!

Also forgot to add that Wardleys do a liquid fry food you can buy from the LFS, I've never used it though so I'm not sure what it's like.

 

[expert11]

ok thanks umm so there a couple of like liquid or uno packaged food that you can buy. do u no how much a hatchery would cost around.

 

[ElectricMayhem]

Yep, the Wardleys is a liquid food, I think it costs around $9 or so. The hatchery is dead easy, you'll need an air pump and stone and an empty coke bottle or the like, the thread for making one is here: http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=54941 You'll also need the BBS eggs, I've seen them at the LFS for $12 a pack, I get mine wholesale through my work, costs me just over $3 for a pack.

How are the eggs going?

 

[Dodabby]

Sera do a product which is very fine powder. Its called Micro... something or another. They do a couple of good fry foods which i used very successfully when i was breeding Bettas.

 

[BWBettas]

Or Atison Betta STARTER, another good fry food. But nothing beats brine shrimp!


Bret

 

[ElectricMayhem]

We can't get Atison's over here, and when I tried to buy some [plus Liquifry!] from overseas customs seized and destroyed it

 

[expert11]

i bort some of that liquid fry today the wardleys one. the eggs have hatched and there about 200 fry

 

[splashluff]

My fry weren't havin the Atison's Betta Starter until they were nearly 1 month old Live food is THE BEST, by far. Microworms, Vinegar Eels, & Baby Brine Shrimp are a must-have when spawning.

Sorry, but I find your user name kind of ironic, considering that you just thought about fry food *after* you had eggs.

 

[f250fisherman]

The egg spray is one of the best fry foods. I like to start the fry on VE's for 3 days, then start the egg spray twice a day. Only give one squirt of the spray, with the nozzle set to fine mist. It doesn't seem like much, but then you see hundreds of tiny particles floating in the water. It can foul the water very quickly if you give them more than they can eat. I'd suggest you siphon the bottom every few days to keep the water quality from declining. I personally siphon every 36 hours, and don't lose many fry. I rotate the egg spray with BBS, but if you can't get any, you will need to find another food they will eat to supplement the egg spray.