Baby food

Morning, so I turned on my main tank this morning and to my surprise saw many babies at the top.
Of course as soon as the other fish saw this the gouramis to the penguin fish started breakfast.
So I decided since I have a planted tank I was growing out I would save them.
Well I managed to get around 35, and as far as I can tell they are from my female sailfin molly.

What I need to know is, for food can I just finely crush up flake food, or do they need something specific?
And how often must I feed them, once or twice a day? (Note that the planted tank does have some algae in it)

 

Hi @Phinix, feed small amounts 4 times daily... smal amounts. You get liquid food for fry, the live bearer type that you can feed them for the first couple of days, after about three days, feed them baby brine shrimp for about two weeks and after that start introducing baby powder flakes and ween them of the BBS, after that just flakes and some micro pellets and your set. HTH.

 

I just use a product called
Tetra min baby. Very rich in smell too.
And mix bbs now and then but this makes them
Focus on flake type of food from
Day one. My mollys babies got munched up really quick
By
The female siemes as she is a hunter but for guppies that's what I use.
I never seen my gorumari eating other frys, but you never know

 

Well, I'm absolutely sure that bbs would go down a treat, but I have reared healthy livebearers (mollies,platys,guppies) on just crushed adult food... good quality flakes ground to a fine powder in a bank bag, when the fry were a little bigger, I crushed granules between two stones. High tech? :bigsmile: Hell no, but it worked for me!