How much should I be feeding Danio fry?

[Holly]

I moved my danio's out of their temporary home, my shrimp tank, into their permanent home last week, and now I have danio fry in my shrimp tank! There's about 10 of them right now, 4 I noticed 2 days ago and the other 6 just started swimming today. I have Hikari first bites, the only food I could get in a pinch, and the package says feed as much as they will consume in 2-3 minutes. Not very helpful when I can barely see them, let alone the food they are eating! I'm surprised to see them, I have cherry shrimp, MTS, ramshorn, horned nerites, and rabbit snails in there at the moment. I thought for sure something would have found the fish eggs delicious! At least I have a good cleanup crew for any uneaten fish food. Any suggestions on how much food to feed them?

Thanks!

[Ruber]

Hi Holly

I wish I could answer you but I have no clue

But I would love to see a picture of your tank and fry's if ever you have the time

regards
Ruber

[Shawn84]

Feed them twice a day. And keep up with water change. If you can feed them 3 time or even 4 times a day to help push em grow. But twice a day is good enough.

[Pyrrolin]

two or three times a day.  You might want to try baby brine shrimp or microworms to help them grow faster.  I spent a lot of time trying to breed tetras without luck and I would assume feeding danio fry would be the same

[angelcraze]

Congrats on your danio fry!!!  I love getting little fish babies.  I think, ime, your fry will find food in your shrimp tank regardless, more than you think, like infusoria, little microorganisms.  I have found surprise pleco and tetra fry live to adulthood, and I didn't even know they were there, so I didn't feed them specifically.  I feed angelfry first bites, but they are always at the top anyway, and I see them eat them.  Or I look for the group and squirt first bites soaked in water from an unused shot glass with an unused turkey baster in their area.  Microworms are great to feed to fry, they live for a bit in the water (so as not to foul out the water as quickly), is more of a natural 'hunt' for the fry to encourage them to eat and very nutritious.  It helps to turn off the filter when you feed, so the fry can swim easier to hunt, also the microworms won't get sucked into the filter before the fry eat them.  Obviously, you will need to re engage the filter after a brief period, don't forget!!!

Also, I am assuming you've already screened your filter intake, since you have shrimplets, those little fry will get sucked right in.  I have found kribensis fry in my filter, also angelfish fry, when they were surprises (I was not expecting them).

[guck]

Holly, congrats!

I feed angelfry first bites,

Angelcraze, excuse my ignorance, what is first bites?

[angelcraze]

First Bites by hikari.  Super tiny powderized flake type food for fry.  It tends to float for a long time unless you soak it first.  I forgot to say, I think Critter Jungle sells microworm starter cultures, and they are so simple to keep going. 

[Holly]

Thanks for all the replies! They all seem to be going to the food, even the ones that are so small all you can see is eyes! It does float for a long time if you don't mix it with water first. The shrimp were quite happy when I didn't mix it, they all lined up along the wall frantically grabbing any food that floated by.

But I would love to see a picture of your tank and fry's if ever you have the time

regards
Ruber

Lol, I tried! They are wayyyy too fast and small! Maybe when they get a little bigger.

[Mike L]

 Someone suggested a few months back to take video of your fish and then do a motion capture of the points in the video that would make good pics.
Mike