Title: How do you feed frozen foods?
Description: Daphnia specifically
Photochick - August 1, 2005 07:39 AM (GMT)
I bought frozen daphnia for my betta's today, and i tried to dissolve a little bit in water. When they dissolved, they were just tiny brown dots. How do you feed them to the bettas?
Kiarra - August 1, 2005 07:47 AM (GMT)
Sounds like you did it right. Daphnia ARE just little brown dots.
Get an eyedropper or baby medicine oral administrator (the latter is what I use) and squeeze up some of the daphnia in their water, then squirt it into the tank. I give it to my Betta fry when they're big enough to eat it, but my older Bettas like it once they realize it's food.
yeeviabettas - August 1, 2005 08:13 AM (GMT)
Makesure soak them in aged water. Not straight from the tap water. :) If you got a brine shrimp net, used that to drain out the water.:) You can used a paper towel to drain too.:)
Photochick - August 1, 2005 08:16 AM (GMT)
thank you everyone. I will do that!
TacoFrano - August 1, 2005 03:31 PM (GMT)
i feed blood worms and i put them in the microwave to dethaugh then i use tweezers it feed them
BettaMomma - August 1, 2005 10:41 PM (GMT)
I buy my frozen daphnia in cube form (Hikari). Then I put a little dish of hot water out and just cut one cube away, then set it in the dish to defrost. Then I use these little bamboo type of forks (with only 2 prong things) and i scoop a tad bit out and drop it into the water - that way it sorta sticks together in a ball.
The girls love it when it blows apart and it looks like it's snowing in their tank from their filter. It keeps them busin for hours :)