How old / big when they eat non live food?

[racheljritchie]

Hi i have some babies that are 4 weeks ish and 1.5" ish
They have been fed on daphnia and as they are getting bigger i thought i would try them with brineshrimp (not bbs) at the weekend...they wolfed it down!! I ordered a culture of daphnia and although it was advertised as fantastical...they arrived all dead so i tried them last night with defrosted bloodworm and they wolfed it down . i didnt think they would have touched it being non moving?
So my question was how old are they usually when they accept non live food and if i feed frozen food what is best is frozen daphnia/brineshrimp messy?

Thanks

 

[tfmreefs]

How old are they? I am glad you posted this cause I am wondering the exact same thing.. Do yours have full front legs and full back legs yet? Thanks! And when you fed it, did you move it around, or how did he eat it? Thanks again

 

[racheljritchie]

How old are they? I am glad you posted this cause I am wondering the exact same thing.. Do yours have full front legs and full back legs yet? Thanks! And when you fed it, did you move it around, or how did he eat it? Thanks again

mine have their front legs. no sign of back legs yet. i just put the bloodwom in (small ones or cut larger ones) i didn't make them move etc but only put about 4 each in tub so i could account for them eating or not. i went downstairs for about half hour an they were gone so i put some more in and they ate them too.

 

[spyder]

I was offering my batch of young axies bloodworm and brine shrimp from about 1 inch, 3 weeks old.

I found, to start with, I needed to drop it on their heads to get them to take it. Within a week of introducing it they got a taste for it and would cruise around to eat it.

 

[racheljritchie]

I was offering my batch of young axies bloodworm and brine shrimp from about 1 inch, 3 weeks old.

I found, to start with, I needed to drop it on their heads to get them to take it. Within a week of introducing it they got a taste for it and would cruise around to eat it.

Yeah , i had looked in on them and i know wen my older ones are looking for food they kinda have their noses to the ground like a sniffer dog, and one of my babies looked like he was doing that so thats why i thought they might take it as it looked like he was looking for food. i am still giving them live food too but its nice to know i have a back up now!!

 

[Xoloto]

oh did you get that daphnia culture from melboury on ebay? mine all arrived dead too :S my second one from another user was better but had mossie larvae in it and barely any actual daphnia just cyclops so I have a colony of cyclops lol.

my axies are all eating frozen bloodworm since they where 1 inch but I started off with halfing the still frozen bloodworm cube then defrosting it so the worms weren't too big but they no longer need that done and they are 2 inch they just have their backlegs growing in and seem to be conditioned into taking the bloodworms straight from the pipet now ,they swim up to it and wait for me to squeeze the pipet and they munch a mouthful,they never used to do that but they seemed to have learned that's where food comes from .it's quite interesting.

 

[racheljritchie]

oh did you get that daphnia culture from melboury on ebay? mine all arrived dead too :S .

i did indeed!! it was all furry, to me it looked like it had been dead a few days... i paid delivery for a second batch which arrived almost all dead..but they seemed freshly dead...he said its my postmans fault!! i have bought live food from others and had no problems so i must have just got a 'bad' postman to deliver his parcel?!? lol

I am just gonna stick to my local shop as at least they are alive when i collect them, i may just buy extra and see if i can start up my own culture!

 

[Xoloto]

he did that excuse with me too ,think s/he's just a bad seller .I need to find a pet store near me that sells livefood :S the only one I seem to have is PetsatHome and they are pretty useless lol.

 

[xxianxx]

if you put the dead daphnia in a bucket of greenwater , you may find that the eggs inside the dead adults hatch.

 

[racheljritchie]

if you put the dead daphnia in a bucket of greenwater , you may find that the eggs inside the dead adults hatch.

i seemed to find some black dots in the bottom of the tub which i have kept and i am hoping that they were eggs and not poo?? how long would they take to hatch
:happy:

 

[racheljritchie]

he did that excuse with me too ,think s/he's just a bad seller .I need to find a pet store near me that sells livefood :S the only one I seem to have is PetsatHome and they are pretty useless lol.

yes i only find pets at home useful for frozen bloodworm and ornaments!
And a lot of the time the ornaments are too sharp inside...it drives my son mad (he is 6) all the ones he likes i 'check' for suitability and they always have really sharp bits inside. Once i bought a log type hide and my male axy cut his side on it. he healed fine tho