Can i use tetra bits to feed my fry?

[wasabi]

Dear alls, Since i live in Melbourne and it's really hard for me to find micro worm.. Can i use my tetra bits to feed my fry?.. or do u have any options for me besides micro worm..i'm really new in apistogramma rasing and for this web sites as well
thanks in advance

cheers

 

[Randall]

Feeding Apistogramma Fry

Dear Wasabi,

Tetra Bits are too big for your Apistogramma fry. In addition to microworms, you can feed them baby brine shrimp (live or frozen) or a powdered food mixed with water that you can squirt into the shoal. Feeding should be done several times daily for the first two weeks (about four times per day). Afterward, twice each day is fine.

Good luck!

Randall Kohn

 

[wasabi]

Dear Randall
Thanks a lot for your answer... i really appreciate that.. now i'm really enjoy apistogramma raising ..actually i have a lot experience in raising other kind of fish especially flower horn and other cross breed.. but nothing impressed me like this draft cichlid ...and i hope to get more fun with it...

thanks again

 

[Neil]

wasabi,

WELCOME TO THE FORUM

.. now i'm really enjoy apistogramma raising ..actually i have a lot experience in raising other kind of fish especially flower horn and other cross breed.. but nothing impressed me like this draft cichlid ...and i hope to get more fun with it...

You came to the right place. Not much impresses most of us like Dwarf Cichlids too!!

By the way the powdered mix is called Tetramin for egg-layers, but there is also a semi-liquid food called Liquifry that works OK as well. Some fry from a few specific species require something smaller than BBS and Tetramin and Liquifry are very helpful fo the first several days until they are big enough to take something else.

Good luck,

Neil

 

[wasabi]

Dear Neil
Thanks for your useful information, i think i have more idea about this thing . and thanks for your warm welcome.. i hope to share some of my experience and some pictures about it..

cheers

Wasabi

 

[Nain]

Tetra Bits for Fry

I refer to your query regarding tetra bits for fry. They certainly are too big for fry. I crush a small quantity between the bowls of two spoons and make a "milk" by placing the resulting dust in a pill bottle and shaking it in water. My fry do all right. This is a good quick fix if you don't have baby brine shrimp ready.

 

[wasabi]

That's great.. Thanks a lot Nain.. It 's very convenient for me as well .. The rest is waiting for my cacatoides to spawn :lol:

 

[hoolig]

Tetra bits for fry

Try HBH fry bites mix a small amount in tank water, then useing a Turkey Baster puff the mixture near the fry, not to hard or it blows them of there feet, I have bred plenty of different fish and always use this method.
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