Live brine shrimp or special fry foods can be hard to find. Here's a quick way to make your own food for baby fish.
Difficulty: Easy
Time Required: 15 minutes
Here's How:
- Gather together the following: An inexpensive pepper mill, a small glass bottle with lid, and a small piece of fine nylon window screen.
- Purchase a small container of shrimp pellets and a small container of spirulina pellets.
- Grind the shrimp and spirulina pellets until they are very fine. Don't worry if there are a few larger pieces. Those will be filtered out later by the nylon screen.
- Cut a piece of the nylon window screen a little larger than the opening at the top of the small glass bottle.
- Place the ground pellets in the bottle.
- Take the piece of window screen that was previously cut and force fit it into the top of the small bottle. The food can now be fed to the fry by gently shaking the bottle. Be sure to recap the bottle tightly after each use.
- Once all the fine food is gone, remove the screen and feed any remaining larger pieces to the adolescent fish.
Tips:
- A well cleaned coffee grinder can also be used to grind pellets.
- Spice bottles are good for storing the ground food.
- Flea markets, garage sales and dollar stores are great places to look for glass bottles and a mill or grinder.
What You Need:
- pepper mill
- small glass bottle w/lid
- fine nylon window screen
- shrimp pellets
- spirulina pellets
