I find BBS doesn't really put on a lot of growth - even when the bellies look orangish. Recommend you move them to beefheart. I've weaned fry to BH as early as 6 days free swimming and see them explode in size.
Willie
Why is it that my fry don't seemed to have grow? I do 90% water changes and feed them 5 to 8 times a day with BBS
My other batch from 2 weeks ago doubled and I don't believe I did anything different
Thanks
I find BBS doesn't really put on a lot of growth - even when the bellies look orangish. Recommend you move them to beefheart. I've weaned fry to BH as early as 6 days free swimming and see them explode in size.
Willie
At my age, everything is irritating.
Thanks! More Beefheart. I did see one difference.. my other 6 week fry that are still with Mom. Feed off her longer. These 4 week fry that are tiny still never really ever ate to much from Dad..Both batches single parent .. Dad is a Yellow. Maybe the slime is the Key to growth?
Willie corect me if my memory don't serve me well , but as I recall from following the grow out challenge Brian (warblad )had the best results in the initial growth stage and one of the things he did different from other contestants was to keep the fry exclusively on BBS for another month or so ?
I know he did feed BBS. Can't recall if it was exclusively - that would be surprising. I've seen discus fry literally not grow when fed solely on BBS after two weeks free swimming. Rather than rounding up, they stayed that sort of transparent appearance with an irregular shape.
Willie
At my age, everything is irritating.
Almost about to give up on these guys. Now down to 15 and still not growing eating only bbs. Picking at the beefheart. Not sure what happened. I think if I try the 2 yellow discus again I will 1st give them a good PP treatment clean them up 1st. My Guess is the parents where carrying something. My other Blue and red pair had about 50 and after 7 weeks zero deaths. Female I purchased from a guy on Craigslist who had his own 50k fish room and was obsessed. The other from a local discus store who also has an online store. These guys are very good by the way!!! Goldenstate discus.
Really I didn't know this. They are a 15 minute drive from my house. Lol.