convict fry food

[kingthedog]

What is the best food to feed convict fry?

 

[tlindsey]

What is the best food to feed convict fry?

Welcome aboard
Tbh newly hatched brine shrimp is excellent first fry food but you can crush what you feed the adults and fry should eat it.

 

[kingthedog]

thanks man

 

[tlindsey]

thanks man

Your very welcome.

 

[Eclipse390]

I used to just crush adult flakes for them. They're very hardy - they'll usually eat anything

 

[kingthedog]

I have been feeding them flakes but just wondered if there was a better food so thanks for the info

 

[duanes]

Convicts are omnivores, or detrivores (AKA scavengers)and in nature they eat everything from insects, fallen leave litter and fallen fruit, seeds, algae, and other detritus.
I have fed fry everything from crushed thawed peas, to cooked egg yolk, to brine shrimp, mosquito larvae, and crushed pellets, and it has all worked.

 

[LDPatton]

I never did anything but feed the adults. The fry would eat the small particles from the food the adults ate. Im sure they also ate algae and other sources of food.

 

[Jexnell]

Hikari has a fry food called First Bites. As expected it's super fine so should turn off pumps while feeding. I used it with good success with my Amphilophus fry.

 

[RD.]

NLS Grow, used it for all my fry for many years. The fry in with adults mostly just got what the adults ate. Fish are so resilient any decent food will work, some just work better than others.