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Hey ISFTS, sorry about the radio silence, and have still been trying with a new clutch of eggs each week, but no luck yet.I'm assuming no luck still, but any updates?
Is the egg yolk and pellets for the Chromis larvae? I thought it was pretty certain that you will need a live food item, preferably copepod nauplii (Parvo) to get these to feed.Ok, so, quick update. With no live copepod or other live food in the water (with only isochrysis and tetraselmis in the water), the fry died after 24 hours post hatch in the container with 2bibbles per second, and they died after 49 hours in the container with 1 bubble every 2 seconds. S it looks like without the live food food they died faster. In the next batch (no new eggs yet) I want to try egg yolk in one container and micronized pellet food (soaked in fresh water overnight) to see if that might do something for them. Will post how that does when the eggs hatch.
As a side note, no luck with getting a pure strain of oithona, so I ordered 8 jars of Ecopods from algae barn and will try to siphon out the oithona to see if I can get a culture of that going. It may take a couple of weeks to get a culture going but will see.
You generally do need live food to convince fish fry to feed, but in some cases fish fry will eat things like egg yolk. In this case, I wouldn't expect the fry to eat the yolk or pellets, but there's a chance they might.Is the egg yolk and pellets for the Chromis larvae? I thought it was pretty certain that you will need a live food item, preferably copepod nauplii (Parvo) to get these to feed.
Maybe this is about the livebearer fry pictured above?