Feeding Sera Micron

[Surreal]

I was wondering how you guys feed Sera Micron? I take a small deli cup and fill it with some tank water and then mix in a bit of sera micron. I take a pipette and feed the micron/water mix directly to my fry. I'm curious if this is a good way to feed the fry or if there's a better way? Is it okay to leave this micron & water solution out for the day to feed multiple times through the day? Or does the food lose its nutrients over time if it's sitting in the water?

[mynameisnobody]

I use a tiny scooper, very tiny. Place a scoop of food on top of the water and just run your fingers across the top of the water. Done.

[T. Payne]

Small paint brush dipped in the powder and then flicked onto the surface of the water.

[AllFishNoBrakes]

I cut down a straw so it fits inside the bag. Dip the end of the straw in, hold it over the tank, and a couple light taps on the straw is more than fry will need. 

[johnnyxxl]

Dean from coop uses a paint brush 

[Chris]

Apparently I'm a barbarian... lol!

I usually just dip the tip of my finger in the tank to get it wet, dab it into the micron, and then shake it off into the tank. 

[Flavoi1]

IMO it depends on the kind of fish you feed.

Some fry are very stationary and wont go looking for food, in this case your way of feeding allows for precise placement of the food to where it needs to go. Other fry are quite active and in this case the "sprinkle on top of the water" method works just fine.

To accurately answer your question about the nutrient content you would need some pretty specialised equipment. Water is a solvent and it for sure deminishes the nutrient content of a smal foodparticle like sera micron after some time. 

If you wanna be a pioneer and help us find out if there is some big drawback to it you could split your next batch of fry in two identical groups and feed one group with fresh food and the other one with food that was soaking for a while.

[Surreal]

On 5/28/2024 at 11:07 AM, Flavoi1 said:

IMO it depends on the kind of fish you feed.

Some fry are very stationary and wont go looking for food, in this case your way of feeding allows for precise placement of the food to where it needs to go. Other fry are quite active and in this case the "sprinkle on top of the water" method works just fine.

To accurately answer your question about the nutrient content you would need some pretty specialised equipment. Water is a solvent and it for sure deminishes the nutrient content of a smal foodparticle like sera micron after some time. 

If you wanna be a pioneer and help us find out if there is some big drawback to it you could split your next batch of fry in two identical groups and feed one group with fresh food and the other one with food that was soaking for a while.

Gotcha, it makes sense how the nutrients would get diminished if left in water. That is a neat idea for an experiment. This is my first time actually raising fry though, so I may save that idea for when I get down how to raise fry in general haha.

[Lennie]

On 5/27/2024 at 11:47 PM, Surreal said:

Is it okay to leave this micron & water solution out for the day to feed multiple times through the day? Or does the food lose its nutrients over time if it's sitting in the water?

Surely a bad idea. This product increases the ammonia readings up to 0.5mg/L even around 30 mins if you are using a separate container to raise fry. If in the main tank with an established filter, likely it is fine in terms of ammonia but will still leech nutritions to the water column I believe

 

the feeding type would change where your fry feeds from. When I feed my gbr fry, I sprinkle on top and let the particles float. When I feed red lizard whiptail fry, they graze from the surfaces and mainly from the bottom, so it makes no sense to let the food float and lose both time and shorten water change period. So I mix it with water and feed it directly

[Guppysnail]

I do like @Chris with the finger (barbarianette 🤣) or for really really tiny wigglers like CPD, emerald danio, and Daisy rice fish I suck a tiny amount up in a pipette then suck up tank water and shake the pipette to disperse to more area in the tank.