What to feed Molly fry?

[Alec]

I just had my first batch of molly fry. I want to feed them good foods, but life baby brine is not an option for me. I have the co ops easy fry food. What other food could I give? I also have extreme krill flakes I can crumble real fine. What about Hikari First bites? 

[Fish Folk]

On 12/18/2021 at 6:54 PM, Alec said:

I just had my first batch of molly fry. I want to feed them good foods, but life baby brine is not an option for me. I have the co ops easy fry food. What other food could I give? I also have extreme krill flakes I can crumble real fine. What about Hikari First bites? 

All of those are good. Just don’t overfeed. 

[Colu]

Hikari Frist bits new life spectrum fry food crushed flake and Ocean nutrition instant baby brine comes in a jar you can put in the fridge once opened 

[Alec]

On 12/18/2021 at 6:56 PM, Fish Folk said:

All of those are good. Just don’t overfeed. 

I always thought you should feed babies a lot. Should it be a small bit of food multiple times a day? 

[Colu]

I feed fry 4 times a day and keep a close eye on water parameters and do daily small water changes that seem to get the best growth

[lefty o]

On 12/18/2021 at 6:01 PM, Alec said:

I always thought you should feed babies a lot. Should it be a small bit of food multiple times a day? 

small amounts, multiple times a day. pretty much any food will work as long as you crush it up for them.

[Fish Folk]

@Alec As @lefty o said, the key is small amounts. For my part, I can typically only feed my fish 2x per day with my work schedule. IF your fry are swimming freely in a well-planted tank, they'll find loads of good things to graze on. Overall environment can balance feedings out -- even overfeeding, sometimes.

But where I've personally had struggles is where I keep my fry in a small, closed container and happen to feed too much. Their stomaches are small. IT's easy to overdo it. I'm just not sure what your situation is.

If you're interested, here's a card to another post of a complete spawning report we did on breeding Tangerine Painted Lyre-tail Mollys. There's a couple videos at the front end. This was the last species my son bred to earn his "Advanced Breeders Award" with our Fish Club. Interestingly, the fry split out some black, others tangerine; some lyre tail, others not:

 

[Gigrantor]

For the most part, I am community breeding my guppies, so they remain in the same tank as the adults. These are all well established planted tanks and I don’t go out of my way to feed the fry separately. They find plenty of microorganisms to feed off of plus the scraps of whatever the adults don’t eat. If you have adults in your tank as well, you may have to feed a little extra to ensure the fry/juveniles get some. However if the fry are separated, minimize the amount and increase the frequency (As others have said already). Keep us updated! 

[Alec]

Not the best picture, but they're doing great. I've counted 19-21 of them. I still have 2 pregnant females in the main tank. 

[PineSong]

@Alec, those fry are looking good. What color are your parent fish? I see that some babies look half light and half dark?

[Alec]

On 12/21/2021 at 8:05 PM, PineSong said:

@Alec, those fry are looking good. What color are your parent fish? I see that some babies look half light and half dark?

They are gold dust Molly's.