Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping Help and Advice => General Fishkeeping advice => Topic started by: Shakie on August 29, 2013, 09:52:19 AM
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There in community tank any ideas what feed them. To hard to catch and isolate them ie to many plants
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How small are they - newly hatched or bigger?
Tiny fry will feed on micro-organisms on the plants. Supplement with baby brine shrimp, something like microworms or even decapsulated brine shimp eggs. Target feed with a turkey baster.
As the fry grow, they can again be target fed with the same food you feed the adults but crushed up small.
Whichever food you use, mix with some tank water and just suck it up into the turkey baster. If the parents will let you put your hand near them, you can use a cleaned up medicine pipette.
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Thanks for the help I tried to thank you earlier but having Internet probs all day. Two days old now and seem healthy enough wich I'm surprised about considering I did a full tank clean two n a half days ago and replanted and moved the hide holes about. That might explain why he was nibbling my hands ;-) . Have three barbs two silver neons n one guppy left barbs are going to lfs tommorow as the ribs don't like em lol. Keeping the others and getting more next week once the rungs grow a bit any ideas to other tank mates for the kribs would be appreciated 95 litre tank at the moment getting a bigger one shortly . Thanks