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Just lots of good food little and often is best. I feed crushed tetra prima, and other fine foods and now and then some frozen brine shrimp. Lots of plants, java moss is good, and they will do the rest. I also change about 35% of the water each 7-10 days
@m.clausen wrote:
how do you condition your CPDs to breed?
I don’t actually separate and condition my CPD’s simply because they never stop spawning.
I do feed them live daphnia, grindal worms, and micro/walter/banana worms. I also feed Golden Pearls, shrimp pellets, algae wafers and crushed flakes.
@m.clausen wrote:
…what do you feed the fry when they hatch?
I start my fry with green water. After about a week I feed micro/walter/banana worms and powered Golden Pearls. As Tom said, they will eat micro-fauna from java moss too.
Best of luck with your breeding project!
Dennis
@ballpc wrote:
@m.clausen wrote:
how do you condition your CPDs to breed?
I don’t actually separate and condition my CPD’s simply because they never stop spawning.
I do feed them live daphnia, grindal worms, and micro/walter/banana worms. I also feed Golden Pearls, shrimp pellets, algae wafers and crushed flakes.
@m.clausen wrote:
…what do you feed the fry when they hatch?
I start my fry with green water. After about a week I feed micro/walter/banana worms and powered Golden Pearls. As Tom said, they will eat micro-fauna from java moss too.
Best of luck with your breeding project!
Dennis
your post gives me 2 more questions….how do you keep the parents from eating the eggs/fry?
and what are golden pearls and walter/banana worms?
@m.clausen wrote:
how do you keep the parents from eating the eggs/fry?
I either remove them from the tank or I use a trap to catch the eggs where the adults cannot get to them. I’m currently experimenting with using leaf litter in the bottom of the tank.
@m.clausen wrote:
and what are golden pearls and walter/banana worms?
Golden Pearls are a brine shrimp replacement diet that has successfully replaced live Artemia nauplii in marine fish hatcheries in Europe. I get mine from Ken’s Fish… http://www.kensfish.com They come is a variety of sizes. I normally use the smallest, (it’s like dust), for new fry and the 200-300 sizes for adult fish.
Walter and Banana worms are just different varieties of Nematode worms much like micro worms. Walter worms are smaller than micro worms and the Banana worms are larger. Adult CPD’s will eat these worms very aggressively too.
Dennis
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