Can you feed Betta fry Hikari first bites or liquifry after they are free swimming and their egg sack is gone?

Question

I would like to know because I am having a hard time keeping them alive. I have tried infursia(lettuce in water) but I think that the water always spoiles. Microworm cultures are to expensive, and I can't seem to find a way to start the culture from scratch myself(I don't want to buy a pre-made culture) Any suggestions?

Answer 1

no you can not,their mouths are too small,even for b/bs(but-they can rip the legs off)YOU need small live food(b/bs,daphnea,paramecium.)
I can tell you how to grow cultures if you want(contact me)
Get lots of ELODIA-this will grow microscopic organisms&they'll get some food.(infusoria)
I always start with boiled egg yolk,i hatch b/bs.I get pond water&grow cultures ect.
I have hundreds of betta fry all diff ages&sizes&to date have lost only4(yesterday-6,1/2wk old/sad)so if you need help....i will.
Remember to water change,everyday.Not all of it of course!
I have a fool-proof method of BREEDING MICRO-WORMS(if interested)

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Micro worms,baby brine shrimp,fine ground foods,etc. are OK after 3 or 4 days on infusoria. The food for Betta fry must be microscopic,for the first 3 or 4 days after the egg sac is absorbed. Until they have actually had some growth,the other foods are just too large. If they don't get the infusoria in a timely manner,they won't grow large enough to eat the other foods.
The first step in spawning Bettas is to learn how to grow infusoria,and then have it growing when the fish spawn.

Answer 4

you can try Brine Shrimp from any pet store, that is the best food for the babies to eat...it comes in frozen cubes but DO NOT feed them the cubes thawed. Just drop one cube in the aquarium and it will desolve onto small teeny weeny bites for the fry. DO NOT overfeed them either by putting several cubes in the water try to feed them 1 or 2 times a day.