SENEGAL BICHIR fry disappearing/dying at 1cm size

[twentyleagues]

I've never had the luck to have poly fry. I've had many others including clown fish and those were kinda difficult to get to eat. Baby brine fresh hatched, eventually they started eating pellets if I used a pipette to "blow" them around.

 

[tlindsey]

Thanks for the advice it looks like the fry's egg sac's are almost gone so I will try to add some micro worms to the tank after work and drain the tank level as suggested. Do you use a pipette or similar to drop the microworms near the fry?

Use the tip of the pipette and just swish the end around in the fry tank the micro worms will be on the bottom and wiggling in the lower water column. The fry will be triggered by the movement of the micro worms and will hunt the moving worms.

 

[Slayer2533]

Use the tip of the pipette and just swish the end around in the fry tank the micro worms will be on the bottom and wiggling in the lower water column. The fry will be triggered by the movement of the micro worms and will hunt the moving worms.

Do the fry's egg sacs need to be 100% gone for them to take any interest in eating the micro worms? Or do you think if they have a small amount of the egg sac left they will still go after worms?

 

[tlindsey]

Thanks for the advice it looks like the fry's egg sac's are almost gone so I will try to add some micro worms to the tank after work and drain the tank level as suggested. Do you use a pipette or similar to drop the microworms near the fry?

Use the tip of the pipette and just swish the end around in the fry tank the micro worms will be on the bottom and wiggling in the lower water column. The fry will be triggered by the movement of the micro worms and will hunt the moving worms.

 

[Slayer2533]

Do the fry's egg sacs need to be 100% gone for them to take any interest in eating the micro worms? Or do you think if they have a small amount of the egg sac left they will still go after worms?

 

[tlindsey]

Do the fry's egg sacs need to be 100% gone for them to take any interest in eating the micro worms? Or do you think if they have a small amount of the egg sac left they will still go after worms?

I personally would offer the microworm after a day or two of hatching. Have a magnifying glass handy so you can observe what is going on.

 

[tlindsey]

I personally would offer the microworm after a day or two of hatching. Have a magnifying glass handy so you can observe what is going on.

I hatched BBS also and what I like about BBS is that their bellies would be pink so you knew they were eating. Also BBS is more nutritional than Micro worms.

 

[Slayer2533]

I hatched BBS also and what I like about BBS is that their bellies would be pink so you knew they were eating. Also BBS is more nutritional than Micro worms.

I have some BBS on the way so once they arrive I can hatch them and also feed them as well as the micro worms. The micro worms I read might be better for a starter food for the fry as they sink and the fry aren't very active hunters. I plan on feeding both.

 

[tlindsey]

I have some BBS on the way so once they arrive I can hatch them and also feed them as well as the micro worms. The micro worms I read might be better for a starter food for the fry as they sink and the fry aren't very active hunters. I plan on feeding both.

Yes absolutely

 

[Slayer2533]

litigator666 how is everything going? Do you currently have any eggs/fry? My fry have started eating microworms as far as I am aware. Egg sacs appear to be gone. They have grown alot since hatching in this short time. Hope you are having better luck and they can make it past the 1cm mark. I will let you know if mine make it past that.