Severum Spawn!
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and it take 3days are the fry to hatch.
Be very careful! If there are adult fish in the tank, they will try to eat the wrigglers through the breeder net. They will try to suck the fry through. Even if they don't succeed it will kill the fry.
It takes 5 - 7 days for free-swimming. Because they hatched so fast, I'm assuming they'll go free-swimming fast. You'll notice them get more "jumpy" as they approach free-swimming. Their yolksacs will also completely disappear. You can start feeding live BBS the day they are swimming.
It takes about 24 hours to hatch brine, so I'd start a batch on day 5 just to be safe. Then I keep two batches going, alternating between each one.
It takes 5 - 7 days for free-swimming. Because they hatched so fast, I'm assuming they'll go free-swimming fast. You'll notice them get more "jumpy" as they approach free-swimming. Their yolksacs will also completely disappear. You can start feeding live BBS the day they are swimming.
It takes about 24 hours to hatch brine, so I'd start a batch on day 5 just to be safe. Then I keep two batches going, alternating between each one.
MONSTER FISH MASTER;4105471; said:Alright, I seriously have around 250 left with swimmers starting to come out!!!
Oh, and is it ok to feed dead bbs?
No dead BBS. Because they're so small, BBS start to break down almost immediately after they die. The water in the hatching container turns cloudy and smells AWFUL. I wouldn't risk putting that into my fry tank.
Put them in a 20 gallon. They're not too small. I siphon mine out of the parents' tank as wrigglers and keep them in the 20 gallon until they're about pea-sized, then I move them to either a 40 breeder or 55.
You can try First Bites. Some fry will take it. You can also try decapsulated brine shrimp eggs if you don't want to hatch live brine.
Based on what I saw with two batches of severums that I raised, the ones on live BBS grew way faster. They're already eating Hikari micro-pellets and frozen bloodworms and they're only about a month old.
You can try First Bites. Some fry will take it. You can also try decapsulated brine shrimp eggs if you don't want to hatch live brine.
Based on what I saw with two batches of severums that I raised, the ones on live BBS grew way faster. They're already eating Hikari micro-pellets and frozen bloodworms and they're only about a month old.
