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- From: joshua@homespace.mtview.ca.us (Joshua Levy)
- Subject: Re: Help.....babies..
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.053629.21013@homespace.mtview.ca.us>
- Organization: Expert Support Inc., Mountain View, CA
- References: <1993Jan24.234143.28267@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:36:29 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.234143.28267@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> gchalk@nyx.cs.du.edu (Geoff Chalk) writes:
- >
- >one of the female swordtales gave birth last night and there seems to be
- >about six babies that have survived.
- >
- >what kind of food do I need to get for the babies?
-
- Well, you can buy powdered fish food designed for fry, but I don't.
- Instead I take normal flake fish food and grind it up into a powder.
- Also, I hard boil an egg, and feed the fish small parts of the yolk,
- powdered. With fry it is important to feed they many times a day,
- but very small amounts each time.
-
- Real Fish Keepers(tm) feed their fry newly hached brine shrimp, or
- small daphnia.
-
- >do I need to do anything different with the amount of time the
- >light is on in the tank??
-
- Basically no, but do not leave the light on all the time! Guppy
- fry kept with the light on all the time will grow faster, but end
- up steril. I do not know if this will happen to swordtails, but
- it might.
-
- Good luck.
-
- Joshua Levy (joshua@homespace.mtview.ca.us)
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