Cichlid Peacock Fry and Baby Brine Shrimp...

[Bur01014]

So was told to feed my fry Baby Brine Shrimp. I bought some of the frozen Sally's San Francisco stuff that comes in cubes. I have about 10 fry....so should I just drop in one cube into the tank? I did this (after warming it up in tank water) and just poured it in. The brine are so small and seem to float throughout the 10 gallon with ease. I think i noticed most of the fry venturing out a little to snack on a few. They are only a day old. Am I feeding them properly? Should I be doing half a cube twice daily? Pouring in the warmed up cube the right way to distribute the food? Or should i buy a syringe and squirt the food down where they are at? Is that really neccessary? The fry are so small in a somewhat planted tank, that i have a hard time spotting them....Any help, input, or personal experience for what works and what doesnt....thanks!

[toddnbecka]

I'd recommend microworms more often than bbs. They stay alive in the water for hours, giving the fry more time to find/eat them before they start fouling the water. IME fry do well enough on crushed/powdered flake or NLS pellets anyway. If there are a fair amount of live plants in the tank there will be an abundance of micro-critters for the fry to snack on between feedings as well. By the time they're too big to bother with such small food they'll be ready for NLS Grow pellets.