feeding egg yoke

[delta5]

I read that some feed egg yoke. Why don't you feed the white part?

[Akili]

I read that some feed egg yoke. Why don't you feed the white part?Is it about feeding the fry that are raised artificial???

[delta5]

Is it about feeding the fry that are raised artificial???

Both. For the parents and for the fry.

[pitdogg2]

back in the day yoke was for feeding fry some may still do it. Yoke was MUCH easier to get very fine white not so much yet I never ever heard of anyone feeding white to parents UNLESS it was used in a beef heart mix.

[delta5]

back in the day yoke was for feeding fry some may still do it. Yoke was MUCH easier to get very fine white not so much yet I never ever heard of anyone feeding white to parents UNLESS it was used in a beef heart mix.

I'm mesing with a quality flake, one a day vit for men, seachem garlic, and maybe some egg. I'd hope mixing it together minus the garlic and baking would bind it.

[Keith Perkins]

I'd agree with pitdogg2, it's probably because of the consistency. When artificially raising fry Jack Wattley use to run a line of boil egg yolk around the water line of a small wash basin for fry to feed on.

[nc0gnet0]

http://www.bulkfoods.com/baking-ingredients/5329-egg-yolk-powder.html

[Phillydubs]

Does anyone still incorporate that Watley method with their fry now? I always hear brine and was curious myself if there were other ways...

Was this to substitute the brine or in combination with?

[Keith Perkins]

Does anyone still incorporate that Watley method with their fry now? I always hear brine and was curious myself if there were other ways...

Was this to substitute the brine or in combination with?

I think it was pre-brine and I don't know of anyone still using the method, though there very well could be. I never mastered it, fouled the water something fierce and I always quickly killed off all my fry. Man that was a long long time ago.

[Phillydubs]

So do most breeders or those with fry hatch their own brine?

[Keith Perkins]

So do most breeders or those with fry hatch their own brine?

Pretty much.

[brewmaster15]

I still use wattley's method when I artificially raise fry. When done right it works very well...but its super labor intensive.
Al

[MendoMan]

It was for raising fry without the parents. Don't ask me why, I have some old books that show that method and it looks like nothing but unnecessary work. I think the OP was talking about making food for adults.. If so why know go with beef heart for your food base?

[Altum Nut]

I still use wattley's method when I artificially raise fry. When done right it works very well...but its super labor intensive.
Al

I too still know veteran breeders using this method....they feed every 2 to 3 hours. Talk about loss of sleep :sleep:

...Ralph

[CliffsDiscus]

I read that some feed egg yoke. Why don't you feed the white part?

The yolk is fat similar to Discus slime.

[CliffsDiscus]

Somehow I alway go back using the yolk, it just works better for me. Method
by Carrol Friswolds once owner of Altenda Water Garden at Pasadena, Ca. back in the 60's.


Cliff

[CliffsDiscus]

I too still know veteran breeders using this method....they feed every 2 to 3 hours. Talk about loss of sleep :sleep:

...Ralph


There are people at my work asking me how do I artifically raise when I have to work 9 to 5, I just tell them the fry have to wait till I get home.
Oh, there is the guy that his wife left him becuase he was getting out of bed every 2 hours, now his alarm clock is next to him on the pillow.

Cliff