My baby discus are about 6 weeks old now and I have been feeding them live bbs and they eat well, my question is when should I start adding other food and what will they eat?
What to feed baby discus
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Stay with the BBS and in a week or so try some crushed up flake along with the BBS. You can also feed them white worms if you can get them our babies love um. We have some 7-8 week old ones that are still with the parents and we feed bloodworms to the Adults and the babies try to eat as well.
Good luck
5 weeks start with crushed flakes,shave up frozen bloodworms with a knife or shave beefheart mixes with a cheese grater.
Thanks. I gave them some baby bites this evening and they went crazy eating them, I will add some crushed flake food and frozen bloodworms. Any suggestions on how long I need to feed the bbs. Thanks again, Pam.
you can move to other foods as long as the fry are eating other foods.
BBS are great but as soon as my fry start eating flake, beef heart etc. I cut back the bbs .
BBS are great but as soon as my fry start eating flake, beef heart etc. I cut back the bbs .
Hi Pop,
The frys attached to the parents over seven weeks and could really stress the parents.... eating off all the milk from the parents .
Cheers
Francis
The frys attached to the parents over seven weeks and could really stress the parents.... eating off all the milk from the parents .
Cheers
Francis
I agree, we are experiencing that as I write this. Thanks for that we are now removing all babies at week 5 or 6.
Pops
Remove fry from parentts after week 2, feed with BBS until week 4-5, switch to frozen (not freeze-dried) cyclop-eeze. Continue feeding cyclops until week 6-7, all the while trying to switch them onto a high protein/high fat pelleted feed. Shoot for a protein content of 45-50% and as high of fat content as you can find. The high fat is key as that wil accelerate growth. I try to avoid beefheart if at all possible. Too messy/dirty. Pellets are much better. Flake food is ok, but there are considerable nutrient leaching issues due to the relatively high surface area of the flake compared to a pellet.
-Ryan
-Ryan