So some time ago I got a female betta, Luna, to accompany my male betta, Windigo. Of course they later spawned and now their eggs doing decently for now. From BettaTalk.com, I know that the fry eat microworms, but I haven't a clue upon where to get them! Where do you suggest I may be able to obtain fry food?
2007-03-19 12:40:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
Well you can order it online. It's possible you can get it at a store. You can also use vinegar eels, and infusoria. Baby brine shrimp work well after a week or so. (Some people use them from day one, but I personally think they are too big.) Personally I prefer vinegar eels, but most people find the prep time a bit much.
At this point it's a little too late for microworms, and vinegar eels. If you start now you could have influsoria ready, and it might get you through the 1st week. (Really you need a week to get it going.) Most fish stores sell brine shrimp, and equipment for them. (Very over priced.) A straving fry will tackle something the size of a baby brine shrimp.
PS- Honestly I'd just scoop out the nest, and flush it. Then get my eel, or worm culture ready then mate my betta. Breeding is easy. Raising the fry is very very hard.
There are also various non-living fry food. They are slightly better than nothing. (Generally they lead to over feeding, and disease.)
2007-03-19 13:26:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The commercial foods most likly won't be accepted by the fry, since at this stage they need movement to trigger a feeding response. Same with the baby brine shrimp - these will need to be hatched and live, not frozen (at least at the time the fry are large enough to start eating this). You may have organisms in the guppy fry's green water, but the betta fry won't eat the algae - they're carnivores. Have you checked your infusoria under a microscope? As long as there are paramecia, rotifers, and the like, this is about what you want to have for the fry at first. Bacteria will be almost too small to see individually, so if you see "things" swimming in the water, this would be your best bet to use.
2016-03-29 06:41:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You won't have time to get a micro worm culture and get it going before you need it unless you happen to have a fish club in your area and a member has a culture to sell you on short notice. Call a few pet stores and do a web search to see. If you are in a fairly large city odds will be good this is the case. Other than that, get egglayer fry food from the pet store. It comes in a tube. This will get them by for a few days until they can eat baby brine shrimp. Yep, you will need all the stuff to hatch brine shrimp every day for the next few months.
For future reference, you can buy a microworm culture through the mail from any one of thousands of places on the web. Just google microworm culture and you'll find plenty.
MM
2007-03-19 12:59:31 · answer #3 · answered by magicman116 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Microworms are very hard to find but you can get them off the internet. In case you get baby bettas before you have the microworms you should get baby brine shrimp. I've also heard they eat only living food until their like a month old or something like that.
2007-03-27 03:36:44 · answer #4 · answered by A$HLEY*! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well by now most of your fry are probably gone because of bad advise.
Boil an egg...yes an egg, hard boiled. Take the yolk and mash it up with some water, put it in a spray bottle with about a cup of luke warm water and shake it up till it is liquid. Spray it on the surface of your fry tank...hopefully you have removed both parents by now? Go to aquabid.com or better yet email me I have micro worms and the instructions to get you started. For now feed them the yolk mix. Just a little..they arent guppies and cant eat large things since they are about the size of a grain of salt. Refrigerate the bottle, but warm it to room temp by letting it sit out for at least 1/2 hour before feeding. Change it out every three days...and seriously email me. Shaz
2007-03-21 12:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by Shaz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some pet stores carry a liquid/gel type fry food. I don't know exactly how good it is for specific types of fish, but one called liquifry I have seen mentioned many times by betta breeders.
2007-03-19 12:54:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some pet stores carry a liquid/gel type fry food
2007-03-26 16:46:41 · answer #7 · answered by jerry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They sell this one called fryfood and you only heed them a little amount or the amount specified on the package. It comes in these little packets and the fish eat it very well and they greww really fast. You should be able to find it in any pet store but I don't know where exactly around where you live.
2007-03-19 13:00:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
got a mortar and pestle? Put betta pellets in and crunch them up real tiny, if you want you can add a little water to make a liquid and get it even finer. Is what I use with all my fry.
2007-03-20 22:57:10 · answer #9 · answered by hoonette 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well i recently got this baby fish food from the pet store. its just powdered fish. my baby guppies seem to love it and they have grown much faster since i gave to them....i forget what its called but its in a green packet.
best of wishes and congrats...;-]
2007-03-19 12:46:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋