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I'm considering breeding some broze cory(scientific name escapes me) just to say I did. I have a bit of experiance. I've raised 3 generations of crayfish and 1 of swordtails. I don't have the facilitys or the money to raise brine shrimp or microworms. Can I feed the fry liqiud fry food and then powdered fry food and then flakes? Thanks Evan.

Gosh Even, I don't know ! To tell the truth, I have never tried. Cory fry are pretty big compared to a lot of egg laying fish, about the size of baby swordtails, but they need a different diet.

Micro worms are not hard or expensive to culture, and once the babies are a few weeks old they would easily go onto very fine prepared foods.

Alan.

Evan,

I hate to admit it, but early on, before realizing the benefits of live food, I raised several thousand aeneus on nothing more than tabimin. They didn't grow anywhere near as quickly as they would if given microworms, brine shrimp, grindals, and blackworm. However, it is possible. Have you given thought to using frozen foods as an early start? It's probably still not as good as live, but will still be better for the fry in the long run, and does get good growth if the water is cleaned often enough.

Larry Vires

I find live brine shrinmp to be the best first food for Corys. One benefit of feeding brine shrimp is that you can see the stomachs of the fry turn red. This way you wiil know that the fry are eating. Just make sure you do not start feeding before the yolk sacks dissolve. This usually takes about 4 days. After a few weeks I feed chopped up worms this really puts size on the fish. You can use Liquifry or Tabimin just be careful abour fouling the water.

Mark