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| How to Feed Aquarium Fish Fry |
Lower crustaceans feed on bacteria, ciliates, unicellular algae, and tiny particles of plant detritus. Therefore, a universal means to support the culture is fodder and baker's yeast, on which everything grows like a "yeast". Based on the recommended initial dose of 15 g per 1 m2 of water (supporting 7 g / m3) recommended in the manuals, then, per 100-liter aquarium, 1.5 and 0.7 g of yeast, respectively, will be required. In practice, each aquarist is guided by their own experience. The recommended water temperature is 20-25 ° C. After making the initial dose of yeast, wait 5 days: the water should bloom (a sign of the development of food for crustaceans) and then daphnia can be launched.
The well-being of the culture is controlled by the color of the water: normally it is light green or barely brown. If the water has turned brown, stop feeding Daphnia, and if after a day of a hungry diet the normal color of the water does not restore, the culture must be replaced.
It is sometimes advised to add a little blood or water to the culture in which the meat was washed. But more environmentally friendly for an aquarium with crustaceans is the device in it of sandy soil and the introduction of a small amount of tubule, which contributes to the development of bacteria.
Denis Levin shared the original way with readers. In September-October, plant several elodea plants in a 5-liter jar. At the bottom, put half-rotten hay or a handful of rotted foliage that no longer pops up, and add a slice of baking or fodder yeast. Until mid-January, do not touch the bank. And then put it in a warm, sunny place and lightly feed Daphnia with yeast.
I.V. Petrukhin gives the following method. In the fall, from the puddles where life used to be in full swing, they take sludge, which contains a large amount of it in the air. In a separate aquarium, on the bottom of which a little soil is laid, water is poured and the obtained sludge is introduced, and then the yeast solution. Water is changed once every 2-3 months. The development of daphnia is controlled by looking at the brood bag located on the back under a magnifying glass: if the bag is empty or there are few eggs in it, then daphnia is starving. In such cases, either daphnia is caught or the yeast dosage is increased.
Along with crustaceans, the grown fish will be happy to eat small-worm enchitrea worms, due to the ease of breeding called "potato worms". Their color is yellowish-white, length up to 1.5 cm. Enkhitrei are bred in wooden crates (not pine ones!) 10-12 cm high, filled with humus-rich garden soil. The soil should be loose and moderately moist. The optimum temperature is 16-20 C.
The well-being of the culture is controlled by the color of the water: normally it is light green or barely brown. If the water has turned brown, stop feeding Daphnia, and if after a day of a hungry diet the normal color of the water does not restore, the culture must be replaced.
It is sometimes advised to add a little blood or water to the culture in which the meat was washed. But more environmentally friendly for an aquarium with crustaceans is the device in it of sandy soil and the introduction of a small amount of tubule, which contributes to the development of bacteria.
Denis Levin shared the original way with readers. In September-October, plant several elodea plants in a 5-liter jar. At the bottom, put half-rotten hay or a handful of rotted foliage that no longer pops up, and add a slice of baking or fodder yeast. Until mid-January, do not touch the bank. And then put it in a warm, sunny place and lightly feed Daphnia with yeast.
I.V. Petrukhin gives the following method. In the fall, from the puddles where life used to be in full swing, they take sludge, which contains a large amount of it in the air. In a separate aquarium, on the bottom of which a little soil is laid, water is poured and the obtained sludge is introduced, and then the yeast solution. Water is changed once every 2-3 months. The development of daphnia is controlled by looking at the brood bag located on the back under a magnifying glass: if the bag is empty or there are few eggs in it, then daphnia is starving. In such cases, either daphnia is caught or the yeast dosage is increased.
Along with crustaceans, the grown fish will be happy to eat small-worm enchitrea worms, due to the ease of breeding called "potato worms". Their color is yellowish-white, length up to 1.5 cm. Enkhitrei are bred in wooden crates (not pine ones!) 10-12 cm high, filled with humus-rich garden soil. The soil should be loose and moderately moist. The optimum temperature is 16-20 C.
Bright light is undesirable. Once every 3-4 days, the worms are treated with slices of white bread soaked in milk, boiled potatoes, sour porridge, kefir, and baker's yeast. Slices of yeast are soaked in water for 10 hours, then, like other types of top dressing, they are buried in the soil. After 3-4 weeks, the worms can be consumed. Extract them in various ways. If you dig up the place where the top dressing was put, there will be tangles of worms. You can fill the earth with water - enkhitreya crawl to the surface. You can sprinkle the earth with a thin layer on the glass and light it from above with a powerful lamp, and then shake off the earth - the worms will remain on the glass. And if you heat the glass from below - they will crawl out onto the surface of the earth. Exotic advice from old books: put a piece of cheese on the surface of the earth, and soon enthitreas will gather under it. If the worms do not breed well, they are given a 20-day hunger strike. Does not help - replace the earth with fresh. If the worms do not breed well, they are given a 20-day hunger strike. Does not help - replace the earth with fresh. If the worms do not breed well, they are given a 20-day hunger strike. Does not help - replace the earth with fresh.
Experienced aquarists are not advised to feed the fish with only one enthree, as many fish can become obese and stop breeding.
Adult fish eat 1-2 times a day. The choice of dishes is determined by the size of the mouth of the eater.
In the summer, small ponds, backwaters, and puddles abound with the larvae of various mosquitoes. The first place in nutrition is occupied by the larva of the mosquito-jerk - bloodworm. It is found in the silt of almost all dirty water bodies with stagnant or sluggishly flowing water. Equipment for the extraction of bloodworms is a sieve with a fine mesh and a scoop with a long handle. Scoop up as much silt as possible, and the work of the gold digger begins: in small portions the silt is placed in a sieve and washed in water with rotational movements until only bloodworms and pebbles, plants or mollusks remain on the grid. Large garbage is thrown away, the rest is laid out on the canvas. You can do otherwise: remove the sieve for a while from the water, then carefully lower it again into it; a slightly dried bloodworm pops up; it is easy to assemble with a small net.
Final cleaning and sorting of bloodworms is carried out at home. The prey is placed in a sieve with holes of such a size that the bloodworm can crawl through them. The sieve is placed on the basin so that it comes into contact with water, the bloodworm creeps into the water and falls to the bottom. The larvae are collected with a net and laid out on a dry rag.
Experienced aquarists are not advised to feed the fish with only one enthree, as many fish can become obese and stop breeding.
Adult fish eat 1-2 times a day. The choice of dishes is determined by the size of the mouth of the eater.
In the summer, small ponds, backwaters, and puddles abound with the larvae of various mosquitoes. The first place in nutrition is occupied by the larva of the mosquito-jerk - bloodworm. It is found in the silt of almost all dirty water bodies with stagnant or sluggishly flowing water. Equipment for the extraction of bloodworms is a sieve with a fine mesh and a scoop with a long handle. Scoop up as much silt as possible, and the work of the gold digger begins: in small portions the silt is placed in a sieve and washed in water with rotational movements until only bloodworms and pebbles, plants or mollusks remain on the grid. Large garbage is thrown away, the rest is laid out on the canvas. You can do otherwise: remove the sieve for a while from the water, then carefully lower it again into it; a slightly dried bloodworm pops up; it is easy to assemble with a small net.
Final cleaning and sorting of bloodworms is carried out at home. The prey is placed in a sieve with holes of such a size that the bloodworm can crawl through them. The sieve is placed on the basin so that it comes into contact with water, the bloodworm creeps into the water and falls to the bottom. The larvae are collected with a net and laid out on a dry rag.
There are many ways to save live bloodworms. We give the most common. In all cases, the optimum temperature is 3-5 C.
1. The bloodworm is wrapped in a moist burlap, pouring a layer of not more than 1 cm thick.
2. A slightly moist bloodworm is placed in a tightly covered low glass vessel (Petri dish, for example).
3. Bloodworms are stored in low vessels (ditches, etc.), changing water daily. Of course, the water must be settled.
4. The bloodworm feels rather well in the sand with water. Sand is poured into the cuvette with a layer of up to 2 cm, water should barely cover the sand.
In the first two methods, bloodworms last for 1-2 weeks, with subsequent ones up to a month, sometimes more.
Young and small fish can be fed with a chopped bloodworm.
It is very important that the bloodworm is fresh, bright red in color, mobile. Stale - dark in color and sticks together, fish can get sick because of it.
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