food progresion for fry

[chris allsop]

i have a checkerboard pigeon blood and blue turq cross at the minute.
babies are about a week old,ive been feeding them frozen baby brine shrimp and zm granules, smallest one.

what do you progress to food wise and at what age?

im really excited just hope they servive!!

[AADiscus]

Chris, I would go ahead and start introducing them to bh (shaved) and anything else you want to feed them. It might take them a little while to start eating it but they should eventually start. Goody luck. Got any pictures?

[diamond_discus]

Not sure what other expert would recommend .. but here's what I use

-- First 3 or 4 days, nothing ... let the baby feed off the parent
-- At the 5th day, use "First Bite" powder and Golden Pearl (100 micron)
-- At 10 days, use Golden Pearl (100 micron) and limited BBS (I can't hatch sucessfully)
-- At 15 days, use Golden Pearl (100 and 200 micron), limited BBS, and introduce chopped frozen blood worm
-- At 3 weeks, use Golden Pearl (100, 200 & 300 micron), limited BBS, and more chopped frozen blood worm, and a few ColorBits.

This is where my frys are at now. They eat a lot and quite often.

[chris allsop]

thanks
i will give them a go and see what results i get

[D4veh]

From about 3/4 weeks I used powdered Earthworm flakes and Tetra Prima ground using a small pepper mill as well as the BBS.......

A small sized offering of what the parents were eating..........

[chris allsop]

i feed eath worm flake anyway plus nearly everything else on the market!!!

they eat way better than me!!

[Willie]

I start with bbs on Day 4 and beefheart on Day 20. They really explode in size once you start them on beefheart.

Willie

[chris allsop]

they are 2weeks old now.

Dont know if im going to feed beafheart as ive heard it is bad for there liver, not they grow on all the other foods available?

[pcsb23]

Chris, you don't have to feed bh, most breeders do as its cheap and high protein. If you feed frozen blood worm, earthworms and a quality flake or pellet food, along with say mysis then you can still get good growth.

[AADiscus]

The biggest thing you need to do is make sure you feed them alot of nutritional food. Yes IMO bh does make them grow faster but they will still grow up nice and healthy with other items.

[chris allsop]

good.
im interested to see how they grow without beefheart.
if im not impressed the i will feed it next time.