Raising and feeding Synodontis fry

[jha61]

Hi,
I have several questions related to raise Synodontis Fry.

1) I like to know what kind of food your are feeding your Synodontis fry with.

2) Which day are you feeding them after hatching the eggs

3) Tank size your are using for the Fry

4) Filter in the tank

5) Water change

6) Other experience in raising fry

Below is my comments
1) Tried with Artemia and micro worm
2) Second or third day I start feeding
3) 8L in the 2 first weeks, then I use a 63L
4) 8L I use Elephant food and in 63L I use HMF filter
5) I shift 10-25% daily
6) Have started to use Liquifry from day one and have some plants with the fry in the 63L tank

[Birger]

I have several questions related to raise Synodontis Fry.

Can you be more specific as to what kind of Synodontis you are talking about?

[jha61]

I have Fry from both Lucipinnis and Petricola.

[sidguppy]

decapsulated artemia eggs, live artemia larvae and the finest dustfood; the orange stuff.

I've bred these too.

the set up was a tiny mesh tank in a bigger one and that one was a plastic one full of holes and it floated in the spawning tank.

2 tanks, cause otherwise the adults would suck the fry right through the mesh.

my filter outlet emptied in the tiny mesh tank, so plenty oxygen for the fry; the water went from there through mesh and plastic with holes in the big tank.

I emptied eggs from the egg-marble traps in the tiny tank

all 3 tanks had lots of MTS in them to clean up food, unfertilized eggs etc

[jha61]

Hi
Thanks for you feed back,
What is MTS?

jan

[Oliver D.]

Hi,

i start feeding of my S. petricola fry three or four days after hatching. Mine grow up slowly... compared to S. nigrita/robbiana and S. schoutedeni...

MTS = Malaysian Trumpet Snail
(The german speaking people call them "TDS". )

[sidguppy]

MTS is Melanoides tuberculata aka Trumpetsnail, burrowing snail etc

a useful little bugger in a breeding set up; but most often a plague of biblical proportions in a showtank.

[jha61]

Here is a follow up on my feeding of fry.

I have tried with Yeast touched up in water from the aquarium, and using a pipette to suck it up on the 2 day, in the mikroscope I can see a lot of very small infusoria in 1 drop of this. this i am feeding with on the second day and use it in 4 days.
I have also used Micro worms and it looks funny to see all the fry searching for this on the bottom.

So at the moment I have 4 small aquariums with fry, where I have tested these ways to feed the fry, and it seams to work.

Jan