Priceless Guppies!

[jitami]

Wayne, hard boiled egg yolk, smashed, mixed in water(quite a bit of water, maybe two cups), then fed a spoonful at a time is supposed to work wonders for baby guppies. I just break apart the egg yolk and put it in a jar with some water, close the lid and shake until you just have tiny particles and pour a tablespoon or so into the aquarium. Store the rest in the fridge and use once or twice a day. I try to feed mine several times a day, too. Usually one or two egg yolk, at least one meal of flakes & hikari first bites, and about every other day they get thawed frozen brine shrimp. The brine shrimp are the adult's favorite by far. I do frequent water changes so don't worry too much about over feeding. I figure I'd rather change water and have fat feeder fish Even starting with a brand new tank I haven't lost any yet, so feeling ok with what I've been doing

[infernalis]

Thanks for the egg tip. I'll give it a try.

Just have to make some deviled eggs with the leftovers.

[jitami]

Mmmmmm... that sounds good... I happen to have a few hard boiled eggs in the fridge from my last batch of fish food, too You'll notice the egg yolk makes a little cloud and gives the tank a snow globe appearance for a bit, but the babies should eat it all in a few minutes... especially 200 of them!

[drache]

wish I could send you our egg yolks
Jeff just came up with ridiculously high cholesterol, so he's skipping the yolk
I've been having them, but at my age there's probably a limit to how many egg yolks I should be having on a regular basis, even though I have low cholesterol

[Lori P]

Rhea, give them raw to the cats. You don't have birds, do you? My parrot looooooooves cooked egg yolks.

[drache]

the cats are eating well these days . . .
perhaps I can bring some steamed egg yolk to Chicken, the cockatoo at the rescue, who's the only bird I'm friendly with

[guidofatherof5]

I thought I would pull this thread out for an update and to once again sing the praises of Guppies.
This little radixes has fallen behind its siblings.
Tonight she made up for some of it. This is a full bellied little scrub.
She downed 7 guppies and needed help back to her enclosure.

[gregmonsta]

Cute little thing ... Fit to burst

[KITKAT]

Very nice! Good luck with her!

[guidofatherof5]

One of the special thing that guppies bring to the table is the water they come in from the pet store. That is powerful stuff and shouldn't be taken for granted. When I'm trying to switch a guppy only eater over to worms I use the wonderful fishy water to my advantage. In with the guppies I add my small worms and just a dash(bam!) of guppy water. That fish smell overpowers the worm smell and most of time the snake doesn't know the difference between a worm piece and guppies.
Doing this only once has converted many of my radixes over to worms when before they would only eat guppies. My last convert was a little snake I call Funny Face. He has a facial deformity on the right side of his face that involves the upper lip and eye socket. He was a guppy only eater until the other day. Now, he's out eating worms with the rest of his siblings.
It's guppy power only in a liquid form.