My fish had sprawn, and I have nothing to feed it! I don't I have to grow my own food. I heard they can eat small bits of fresh shrimp? Can they? Help!
2007-09-12 13:11:39 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
Boil an egg, cool it and peel off the shell. Eat the white yourself (if you want - or discard) and crush little bits of the boiled egg yolks to feed your fry. This, plus daphnia and newly hatched brine shrimp, is about all I feed my koi fry until they are big enough for "regular" food.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
2007-09-12 14:26:32 · answer #1 · answered by Poopy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's going to depend a lot on what species had the babies. If what you have are from livebearers (guppies, mollies, swordtails, platys etc.) flake food is fine, you just need to crush it a little finer for them to be able to get some that's an appropriate size for them.
For fish that lay eggs, you still have a few days before you need to provide food - they'll still be absorbing the yolk sac until then. The fry cichlids (at leasy of some species) will still eat pellets if they dissolve quickly. I had a father convict who would take a pellet, turn it around in his mouth to break it up, then spit the particles at the fry for them to eat. There's also fry food (comes in a tube) for them.
For other egglayers, you almost need to provide live foods. Depending on the size of the fry, they may be able to take newly hatched brine shrimp (you'll have enough time to get a batch of these going - get a hatchery kit at your local pet store, you'll need to provide a 2 liter bottle). For very small fry, about all you can do is to hope that there are enough microorganisms in the tank to keep them alive until they're old enough for baby brine shrimp.
Google "spawning (your species)" and you should be able to find info on what's appropriate to feed your typ if I didn't mention it by name.
2007-09-12 20:56:47 · answer #2 · answered by copperhead 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It would have been nice to know the species of fish . But I agree crush some of the food you have already in your fingers till it can't get any smaller and feed it to them . I have bred almost every kind of aquarium fish and this will work. ASAP get some baby brine shimp . you will have more babies to live.
2007-09-12 22:26:02 · answer #3 · answered by trkbuilderman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They sell foods for fish that are small enough. Go to Petsmart or Petco and ask an owner there. They'll help you with foods that'll work! You could also get a little decoration for it's fishbowl while your there..
2007-09-12 20:29:10 · answer #4 · answered by Camel Lover 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they'll also eat the debris from the other food that you are feeding the adult fish...also petstores sell small bottles of baby fish fry food in the fish food sections.
2007-09-12 20:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by sunflower14424 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whatever you are feeding your regular fish, crumble it up really small and feed it to them.
2007-09-12 20:17:14 · answer #6 · answered by Michelle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have been breeding since i was 2! crumple up shrimp pellets
2007-09-12 21:12:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋