Rams

[dhm325]

What is a suitable first food for Ram fry? I have been using Vinegar Eels, freeze dried rotifers and 50-100 micron Golden Pearls. Are Vinegar Eels too large for newly free-swimming ram fry? Thanks.

 

[TetraFreak]

What is a suitable first food for Ram fry? I have been using Vinegar Eels, freeze dried rotifers and 50-100 micron Golden Pearls. Are Vinegar Eels too large for newly free-swimming ram fry? Thanks.

Have you tried Baby Brine Shrimp?

I hear that they go nuts over them!

 

[dhm325]

I thought that bbs were too big for newly free swimming Ram fry. Have you actually used bbs to feed new Ram fry during their first few days of free swimming?

 

[fishgeek]

read z man's article , he certainly has
here

 

[dhm325]

Thanks. My rams are wild. The fry seem way too small for bbs. I will give it a try though.

 

[nightowl1350]

If you can find microworms or vinegar eels they are smaller than bbs and work great for blue ram fry. See if there is anyone in your area that has a culture going and get one. If not you can mail order them, but not sure where.

 

[apistoireland]

freshly hatched brineshrimp should be OK. I've used them as first food on my wild rams and they had no problems.
Alternatively you could use some of the liquid first food stuff that's around by most of the major food manufacturers.
If you want to save yourself some money , infusoria are always an option

 

[Apisto ranch]

I've fed wild GBR's Live Baby brine shrimp a few yrs back with no troubles at all. I Know that this may not be good info being that it's so long ago. But they had a little bit of trouble starting out at frist but man with in oh I'd say 2 fedings.they where pro's at. i did notice That for the frist I beleave 2 weeks there was a differnts in the behaver. LIke more of the fry was staying on the bottom and not schooling around the sides and corners. Like they where doing before the lbbs. Then the ones that wheren't in the school the older they got the more they'd brke way from the rest of the fry.
But other then that they grow faster. The males got more aggrasave to the females an redy to spawn { and tryed and did have eggs } At 4 months old but none of the eggs hatched. The color in them was out of this world bright at there age. But None of that made a differnts in the BS or no BS. JUst proved to me that it is great for them.