Tony
Peter Unmack wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 anutej-in-loxinfo.co.th wrote:
>
> > Of all Cyprinellas I had bred red shiners are the easiest to spawn
> > [almost always ready], but their eggs seem smallest and their young
> > are the hardest for me to rear. Greenfins and others either have
> > larger eggs or easier to rear youngs.
>
> That's a good point. Allan Semeit's article suggested fry were small, but
> he fed baby brine and crushed flake food and-in-least some of them made it
> through ok. What have you tried feeding your baby red shiners?
>
> One food that is popular with rainbowfish people in Australia is
> vinegar eels. Would seem to me that these would be great for smaller baby
> minnows too small for baby brine shrimp. But does anyone here on this use
> them-in-all? I wrote an article in AFM a few years ago on them, a similar
> version to that can be found here,
> http://www.peter.unmack.net/papers/1996.vinegeel.rt.html
>
> Cheers
> Peter
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