Liquid fry food?

[eugeneT]

Hey everybody, my bronze corys have just started laying eggs all over my 29 gallon today and since im on vacation this week I have a better chance of doing it right this time. I took as many eggs off the glass as i could and transfered them to a small plastic box half filled with tank water from their parents tank. Its floating in my open top 10 gallon to keep it at a good temp. I added a bubbler for O2 and put in a digital therm. so I can keep track of the temp easily. I have some fry food I made myself with a pepper mill, it has bloodworms, flakes and some of those gammarus all ground up really fine. But I have heard of using chicken eggs and a baster or egg dropper to feed liquid food to them too, but I forgot is it the whites or yolk you use? I plan to use whichever one is right and add small quantities of the mini flake to it and feed them several times per day. Anyone that can help I be grateful, I want these lil fellers to make it this time. Any other suggestions are also welcome. Thanks

 

[jvision]

If you want to use the eggs, boil them then squeeze the yolk thru a cheesecloth. Feed only a very small amount, as it fouls the water quickly.

 

[Steve737]

Crumble up the flake food in a plastic baggie until it looks like powder. Then rip off one end of a q-tip and dip the stick end into the water, then the powder. Dip the stick back in the fry net, and you're done. One of my female Sunset Swords just had 20-25 babies and that's how I'm feeding them.

 

[me_wee_todded]

use the yolk but whip it first.
then add some powdered food so it turns into a kind of paste.

this stuff works good

 

[Jaybird]

I just use that "Liquifry" stuff. (Number2 for live bearers, number1 for egg layers). It's pre-mixed, cheap and does the job. I also put in some newly hatched brine shrimp.

Jay.

 

[eugeneT]

Thanks everybody, Im hoping they will hatch soon.

 

[fishfreak317]

I just use that "Liquifry" stuff. (Number2 for live bearers, number1 for egg layers). It's pre-mixed, cheap and does the job. I also put in some newly hatched brine shrimp.

Jay.

i've tried this stuff, and none of my fry ever eat it. i just been useing baby brine for now, they seem to love that stuff.

 

[awdawg]

my con's definitely like the hikari "first bites" at their smallest stage, and its cheap at around 2 dollars for a little package. I'm going to use that at first on my blood parrot / Jingkang fry till they upgrade to new life spectrum grow, and NLS h20 stable wafers an omega one flakes..

 

[WyldFya]

For corydoras your best bet is microworms. The survival rate is nearer to 80% with live microworms vs. anything else is 25-50% survival. Baby brine shrimp can be offered once the fry are a little bigger.

 

[ewurm]

For my livebearers, I use Wardley liquid fry food, then Hikari First Bites. I don't know if Corys will take it though.