Woke up to a suprise this morning!

[Diana]

Well they are all still alive, but only about 5 or 6 have bellies full of brine shrimp. A lot of them just follow the shrimp around but never snick at it, I guess its only the largest of the fry that are able to eat the brine. I enriched the brine with Selcon, hopefully this will provide the fatty acids.

-Diana

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Good luck Diana. Crossing fingers & toes in Burnaby.

[Skimmerking]

and people say that Reef keeping is expensive ,Not when you encounter this. Money doesnt matter

well done Mommy

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Diana

I enriched the brine with Selcon, hopefully this will provide the fatty acids.

Diana,

Newly hatched brine shrimp obtain their nutrition from egg yolk sacs. They cannot eat until they are 36 hours old, or something like that, so feeding the BBS anything is useless.

The egg yolk sacs are what make BBS nutritious, so it is important to have the BS hatch just before feeding them to the fry.

Once the fry get a lot bigger, you can keep your BS longer and gutload them with Selco or Selcon. Doing so any earlier is a waste, ime.

Good luck with the remaining fry

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Beverly

Diana,

Newly hatched brine shrimp obtain their nutrition from egg yolk sacs. They cannot eat until they are 36 hours old, or something like that, so feeding the BBS anything is useless.

The egg yolk sacs are what make BBS nutritious, so it is important to have the BS hatch just before feeding them to the fry.

Once the fry get a lot bigger, you can keep your BS longer and gutload them with Selco or Selcon. Doing so any earlier is a waste, ime.

Good luck with the remaining fry

IMO, the selcon does coat the BBS even though they don't eat it, so the baby horsies are getting some of the selcon into their systems. Its not the greatest system but not a complete loss and any extra you can get into the babies definitely benefits them down the road.

[Beverly]

Originally Posted by christyf5

IMO, the selcon does coat the BBS even though they don't eat it, so the baby horsies are getting some of the selcon into their systems. Its not the greatest system but not a complete loss and any extra you can get into the babies definitely benefits them down the road.

I think coating the bbs with oily Selco/Selcon is likely going to foul the fry's tank, since the oil will probably rise to the water's surface. Could be wrong though.

[christyf5]

good point, it is messy stuff.