Best food for baby cichlids.
- Thread starter Dangerd22
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When the fry become free swimming crush up pellet or flake food you feed to the parents. Also if you have any Algae growing in the aquarium that will be a source for the fry to graze on but still feed food.
You could grow infusoria. Take old tank water, but in a clear container like a water bottle, and put it in the sunlight. Once it turns green, you can dump the water back into the aquarium.
Or boil an egg, and after it cools to room temperature, put it in the refrigerator for a few hours. Crumble the yellow egg yolk into the tank. I've raised giant danios and rainbow fish this way until I could feed them flakes.
Or boil an egg, and after it cools to room temperature, put it in the refrigerator for a few hours. Crumble the yellow egg yolk into the tank. I've raised giant danios and rainbow fish this way until I could feed them flakes.
For dwarf cichlid and angels BBS seems to work well. The problem with flakes and powder food is a lot of frys require the food to 'move' for them to 'chase' it. But if you go with powder northfin, hiraki sell powder fry food and kenfish has golden pearl at quite a fine granularity that i know several breeders use.
BBS would be the best but the OP stated didn't want to go that route.
It’s not that I don’t want to I just don’t have the supplies. I can make a diy one but the brine shrimp wouldn’t come soon. Are there any good BBS eggs on Amazon?
duanes
recommended these and I purchased a couple off Amazon. They are great.https://www.brineshrimpdirect.com/hatchery-dish