Enriching BBS with Selcon?

[Katowoo]

I was thinking about getting some Selcon for my bbs that I feed my 2 tanks of frys. Questions:

1) Is there a need to enrich the BBS? I hatch enough daily to feed the two tanks so all my BBS has the most nutritional value. I then suck up any left overs the next day when I do my daily cleaning of the bottom and adding some new water. So really, my frys are getting bbs that's never over 24hrs old.

2) If there is a benefit to the BBS with Selcon, how long do you soak the bbs in the Selcon and do I need to add some current to the container containing the bbs?

Also using Otimie A to feed the frys.

Thx in advance!

 

[dexterd]

If you are feeding <24 hr old bbs you have no need to enrich. And you want to get them off the bbs as soon as they are taking otom due to the nervousness that bbs seems to cause. They are extremely susceptible to shock when on bbs. Don't know why, but that is what the books say. Of course when you start feeding dead food you need to convert them to a biological filter system so the waste is absorbed. How old are your fry? Have they meted yet?
Teresa

 

[Katowoo]

Thx. Teresa for the reply. So there's no need for me to pick up some selcon for the bbs. Great. I didn't know the the fry are susceptible to shock on bbs. I have a spnge filter that's been running in my main DT for weeks now that I'm planning to put into the older fry tank... maybe today. My fry are taking about 2.5 weeks to go through meta.. not sure why. I started another thread in this forum asking about it and the consensus was that there may not have been enough food for the fry. What are your thoughts? Here are the params on my true perc fry tanks:

Tank 1 - 3.5 weeks old fry through meta now (started at almost 3 weeks) - Ammonia 0 / PH 8.3 / Nitrate 0 / Temp 82 degrees / SG - 1.024

Tank 2 - Almost 2 weeks old now. Noticed some white head bands starting on some of the fry - Ammonia 0 / PH 7.8 / Nitrate 0 / Temp 82 degrees / SG - 1.024

Tank 3 - new clutch 2.5 days old now.

Tanks 1 and 2 have the same params but Tank 1 with the 3.5 week old fry has a higher nitrate level.

I've got tank 1 (3.5 week fry) on bbs and Otihime A
I've got tank 2 (13 day old) on rots / bbs and Otime A

On tank three, I'm going overboard to make sure that there's enough rots in the tank to see if that makes a difference in meta. I've got 3 x 5G cultures of rots that's pretty dense.

My feeding schedule is some Otihime A in the AM then at noon. Around 6PM I clean the bottom of the tank sucking up any guck and leftover otihime A on the bottom, then I feed them the newly hatched BBS at that time. They pig out on the bbs and that's why I feed them late so when the lights go out, they're not pigging out on bbs anymore and they can relax and digest in the middle of the night.

Wow - you've got a 500G system for clownfish with a 300G growout. I can only wish. Do you grow clownfish commercially?