Live to frozen foods (Belonesox)

[Industrial]

So a few weeks ago my belonesox belizanus gave birth. One of the fry seemed to be very hardy, and it was also the quickest learner of the few fry that I found.

The first day I fed him a baby guppy I just happened to have, the next day I asked my LFS for some of their baby brine shrimp. The pike livebearer went for that, the next day I used frozen baby brine shrimp and surprisingly it went for that as well.

One of my mosquito fish gave birth the next day and for about a week it only ate mosquito fish fry. When I tried live adult brine shrimp they went ignored so I had to feed it more guppy fry a few times trying BS every other day or so.

Now I am really trying to get it on frozen foods again, I tried upping the current in the sponge filter but it is not working. I have an advantage as the belonesox is not afraid of me and is capable of picking stuff up quickly (knows the net means that it is feeding time).

Yesterday it tried frozen BS but it quickly spit it back out.

Does anybody have any other tips?

 

[Gregory32]

First of all, congradulations for your belonesox giving birth. Now about the fry, the best food for them would be feeder guppy fry but if you do not have inuff feeder fry or you have run out then I would feed them live blood worms witch you can either buy at a pet store or catch yourself at a pond or stream. They prefer to sit in the algae on the rocks or if you have a artoficial pond they will be on the sides and bottom (the ones cought in the wild seem to work better for me). You can set up a container of water, put some rotting leafs in, set it outside and wait. In a few weeks the container should have mosquito larvae inside witch you can give to the fry; worked very well for me. The last live food that you can try giving to the fry is adult daphnia (water flea). Although most stores do not sell daphnia you can buy them on the internet, but there is a alternetive: they are fairly easy to catch. To catch them you simply take a small net (I use the net from my fish tank besause the fabric is alot finer then the one from other nets and therefore can catch the small daphnia) and go to a pond. Hope This Helps

 

[Industrial]

Thanks for the tips, but the thread was from May lol.

Might as well follow up now though

After that I remember I would hold tiny rosy reds with my fingers for a second then drop them in. He eventually grabbed them before I let go and I tried it with freshly dead rosys and he went for that too. Then all of a sudden he got really nervous and reclusive and would hide everytime I fed him.

The next batch are all on frozen. I started them on live chopped blackworms from my LFS, and then eventually got them to eat frozen bloodworms, but I had to feed them like one bloodworm at a time (imagine doing this to 60 babys!) It was tedious and time consuming, but the remaining 15 (sold a bunch, had daily die offs for a couple weeks) are now swimming up to the glass when they are hungry and eating out of my hand.

I've sold the parents as they were dropping fry left and right and I didn't have the time or space to take care of the fry. I will probably sell the original single fry once she gets around 4" and then keep one of the more domesticated belonesox when they get bigger.