BBS

[Alan]

Now I consider myself a bit of an expert on hatching BBS.

Last night I went to fed my killies their daily chow down of BBS only to find instead of a million of the little fellas, that they had disappeared into an orange cordial coloured mass in the bottle.

I have been doing this for yonks, three tspn of eggs into 225ml softdrink bottle with three cups of salt water, and very heavy aeration.

I have no idea what happened, and the fish were not impressed at all with their diet of micro worms for eening snack time.

Quickly set up another bottle, but the fish wont have that now till tomorrow morning I would think, but I'll check the hatch late this arvo.

Any ideas?

Has it happened to you??

Strange.

Alan 104

[craig]

wow alan that's no good, poor little guys be mighty hungry.

i have had bad batches before now, not quite like that although i had a bunch hatch early than expected,cos of heater getting up to high 32 temp.

they kinda went like that. i usually have 3 bottles going at a time and had it going perfect, all the rest were fine so temp didn't kill them, just hatched way early and the little buggers starved and died.

check water temp.

hope this is of some help :lol:

shell.

[shiuh]

i had this happened sometime too. fry gone without food for couple days, but luckily blue fixs me up with some MW culture.

when i have this happen, i would normal clean out the whole hatching kit/tank or watever. refill the water, check the water, salt salinity etc. hopefully it will go again. but i still didnt figure out what went wrong. :roll: seems to be doing everything right.