How do you feed the babies while they are in the tank???
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that's a slight issue, depending on your tank configuration. The unit should be slightly above water so that there is no way for the fry to escape from above, better, for other fish or aquatic animals to not get in from above, sometimes the lid even floats away. I use Hikari baby guppy food, really nice and the fry love it. Just a little goes a LONG ways. I have since stopped using this product and bought a small Aquaeon 2 gallon tank to transfer all the frys so that there is no possible other aquatic animals that eat your fry and also a LOT easier to feed
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There is a small hole on top where you can insert the food. This nursery requires that the top be out of the water because of the same hole mentioned or babies will swim out.
1632222
Although there is "fry" food, I think that is more for hatched fish. For livebearersI generally use the regular food crumbled finely between my fingers
1632223
You have to make sure that the water in the main aquarium is one inch below the top of the baby tank. Also for feeding the fry, I use tropical fish flakes and crumble it real fine between my thumb and index finger. The fry will eat that. Make sure it is real fine.
925124
Put a bottle and a half in when your tank is almost empty. Then fill the tank. That would be enough.
246270
I think it depends if you are using as supplement to nursing or exclusively bottle feeding. Newborns eat every 2-3 hours. So you'll need enough so you aren't constantly doing dishes. A dozen? I nursed so I'm not sure when they move up to 8oz bottles but I think about 6 months.
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I'm guessing you're only feeding him/her an ounce or so, right? These containers hold around 6. So they might be a bit big now, but you'll be glad you have them in a few months. You might want to look at getting some of the oxo tot containers too, those are great for smaller portions. They even have measuring marks so you know how much your feeding them. I love mine, I have two sets.
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You are feeding them too much. The algae will take all the oxygen and your sea monkeys will die. Stop feeding them until the water clears. If they all died let the water evaporate and you can start over with "second generation eggs". All this is in the instructions. Do the air thing too. If you have no air pump transfer the water back and fourth to a cup and back to the tank a couple of times.
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HelloI put a glass on the edge of the tank and then put the feeder on the glass, I note that the output of the meal is over water, but away from the bubbles, not to moisten the food.Regards
169137
Are you feeding them in upside down by any chance? I was trying to do that when i first got it
788717
OHHH my little one loves them. I do this every week. I usually buy chicken breast, freeze it so it is easier to slice, then I slice it nice and thin, and use my dehydrator to make the jerky. He goes nuts for it and will actually wait by the machine till its done. Its great for drying liver for treats to!
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I'd be sure to have a diaper on her as it's real quick. Here's a tip I found on Pinterest: use a paste of baking soda and food coloring (we like green) for "food" because there were several complaints about the food mix in the set getting clogged up the tube and getting smelly. I tried it once but I think the food mix was easier to feed....maybe my paste was too watery. Hope this helps
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I used these as feeding bottles for the first 3 weeks because they ate the perfect size. I used the wide based nipples and the calmas and they work perfectly. Now that my baby is eating 4 oz per feeding I'm trying to figure out how full I can fill these to store and freeze milk in.
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Because ism only feeding one bearded dragon the crickets lasted over a month! I have them fluckers orange feed and yellow diet (sold separately) ever couple of day at the bottom of the tank. Not the whole bottle just a small pile of each. They say you can slice up a potato and use that for food/water but my son frequently forgot.
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Move your tank ... room is too hot .Over kill for that small of a tank ..Put it in cooler room and put a small cooling fan on it.
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it's pretty simple, esp. if you have a green-water culture to feed them. If you're not maintaining a large culture, you can also use a bottle of invert food for reef tanks from your local pet store. they are opportunistic filter feeders and will feed on nearly anything that's small enough, but if you're raising them as fish / fry food, what you feed them has a large effect on the nutrition they provide. read http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~davidr/discus/articles/daphnia.html for more info, and googleing daphnia culture techniques will also help. If you don't have much experience with them, you may be better off getting a live culture rather than eggs to start, as the eggs also have triops and fairy shrimp eggs mixed in, and if you don't recognize and remove he triops that hatch first, they will eat the daphnia as soon as they hatch. live cultures, food for them, etc. can be found at Florida Aqua farms, lfs cultures, and carolina scientific supply. I'd recommend florida aqua farms, and get some roti-rich food as well. If you want to maintain a culture long-term, also get a starter of nanochlopropsis algae and some algae-grow to provide a food source for the dapnia that can be supplemented with one of the marine invert foods like kent marine microvert for a hign nutritional profile. If you mainly want aa fry food, get dapnia pulex or moina, not daphnia magna - if you mainly want to feed adult fish, daphnia magna are great. http://florida-aqua-farms.com/product-category/store/live-cultures/ http://www.lfscultures.com/cultures.html http://www.amazon.com/Kent-Marine-MicroVert-8-ounce-Bottle/dp/B00027ZV6E/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1364209494&sr=8-2&keywords=microvert
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Hi amanda! All you do is soak them in a glass of water. It'll take overnight, but you ll see the egg begin to hatch with a dinosaur inside. Not much to it. Its exciting for the kids to see! Good luck. kim
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You have to fill the tank, preferrably with some sort of filtered water. I just fill it at my fridge.
1415268
Unfortunately no. The feeding mechanism is through a sraw like cap which has to be unscrewed in order to fill the tank. There is no way to fill the tank from the top.
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I use the hottest water from faucet or boil water, place in a bigger bowl and sit this smaller bowl in the hot warm to heat up the baby food. Hope this helps. They are very small jars, only 6 oz so pretty small to put on top of an electric burner, plus you have to deal with trying to take off the hot bowl.