cyclopeeze as second food for fry

[MarinaP]

My GSM fry are 7 days old today. When do you think I should start them on cyclopeeze as their second food?
Thank you.

[richardb42]

Funny, I could swear I and others replied to this earlier this afternoon. Maybe RC had a database hiccup...

I feed freezed-fried cyclopeeze to my occelaris and percs when I see headbars. For about 4-5 days I add some blended cyclopeeze (to make the grain size smaller) as a supplement to rotifers. I also add a sponge filter around the same time.

After that, they can take the full-sized cyclopeeze. I don't bother with brine shrimp anymore.

Of course, the timings with maroons may be a bit different.

[MarinaP]

Thanks, richardb42. I mentioned in my earlier post on "Anemone and Clownfish" forum that I would post the same question in the "Breeding Forum" as well. Did not mean to confuse anybody.

[richardb42]

Oops, I guess then its my brain that hiccuped.. must have been deja vu, like in the Matrix.

[melanopus]

richardb42, how do you blend the cyclopeeze? Do you just put it in a blender??
Also, my maroons hatched on the seventh night not eighth, is it normal?

[richardb42]

For blending I use an old hand-held milkshake-type blender that I bought about 12 years ago. It may no longer be sold.

Hatching times vary from fish to fish. My large occelaris go to 9 nights, the small ones to 8 nights, and the percs also 8 nights.

[Dman]

Melanopus,
You could also use a mortar and pestle to grind it up small enough.

The hand blenders are still available, at least in Canada they are.

Also, according to Wilkerson hatch times are also temperature dependant.

Dman

[jacobdol]

I use mortar to grind it

[richardb42]

Yes, I use a mortar also, but forgot to mention it. The blender gives a finer grain size. I get 3 sizes this way, but Im actual mortaring (or pesteling) less these days and going striaght from the blended version to the full grain size. Laziness, I guess.

[melanopus]

wow, I thought this stuff (freez-died cyclop-eeze) was already very small but I guess I have to go buy a mortar...

[JHardman]

It is pretty small, but most of it is still just a little larger than BBS which makes it just that little bit too large for fry.