The circumstances:
I have a young Marisa Cornuarietis. I also have a batch of angelfish fry at about a week old. The kicker is that I also have to drive my mom to Idaho to see my sister this weekend. I won't be able to feed them for about three days!
The tank and methods:
The fry tank is a lively ten gallon, with two species of nematode(one dot-sized, the other eyelash-sized), three or four adult fairy shrimp on cleanup and filamentous algae just sprouting since yesterday. 100watt fluorescent blasting 24/7. It's got an aquaclear 50 set to trickle baffled by a scotch-brite pad and a heater keeping the water at about 82ºF. I am feeding boiled egg yolk, pulverized high-quality dry food and squirts of water from my tubifex/snail/fairy shrimp tank. So far, they are doing ridiculously well. This is my first attempt and I've already got them to the free-swimming stage. There are about thirty or forty of them, and they are the first spawn of a young pair of angels from my community tank.
The potential solution:
Apple snails produce infusoria as a waste product, I've been told. As such, I've considered adding him during my absence as a life-support mechanism to feed them something while I'm gone. I assume they'll eat the algae, too, and perhaps the smaller nematodes if they get desperate. The snail would feed on fresh broccoli leaf. Has anyone used apple snails to feed fry before?
I have a young Marisa Cornuarietis. I also have a batch of angelfish fry at about a week old. The kicker is that I also have to drive my mom to Idaho to see my sister this weekend. I won't be able to feed them for about three days!
The tank and methods:
The fry tank is a lively ten gallon, with two species of nematode(one dot-sized, the other eyelash-sized), three or four adult fairy shrimp on cleanup and filamentous algae just sprouting since yesterday. 100watt fluorescent blasting 24/7. It's got an aquaclear 50 set to trickle baffled by a scotch-brite pad and a heater keeping the water at about 82ºF. I am feeding boiled egg yolk, pulverized high-quality dry food and squirts of water from my tubifex/snail/fairy shrimp tank. So far, they are doing ridiculously well. This is my first attempt and I've already got them to the free-swimming stage. There are about thirty or forty of them, and they are the first spawn of a young pair of angels from my community tank.
The potential solution:
Apple snails produce infusoria as a waste product, I've been told. As such, I've considered adding him during my absence as a life-support mechanism to feed them something while I'm gone. I assume they'll eat the algae, too, and perhaps the smaller nematodes if they get desperate. The snail would feed on fresh broccoli leaf. Has anyone used apple snails to feed fry before?
