puppetmaster04
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I have most of the hatchlings out now, and there's gotta be about 150 of the little guys.
I'm seriously struggling to keep up with their feeding! Bought 12 bags of daphnia on Thursday but about 50% of each bag is dead. I'm really annoyed at the pet shop, does this happen to anyone else?
Put 3 of the bags into a container with some mud and pellet things with the intention of starting my own culture but seems that they mostly died, or is that normal for the start of a culture? I don't trust it. Just going to see what happens. Am I meant to have a lid on the container?
I know baby brine shrimp are better but I couldn't get any of them ANYWHERE last week so I ordered some on ebay, they arrived dead. So annoyed at that as well.
Worst week for babies to arrive really, last Friday and this Monday are bank holidays so the pet shops were closed.
Gonna resort to buying some Sea Monkeys from Toys'R'Us tomorrow to feed to them in the meantime.
Anyway, just thought I'd share my current situation with you all. The babies aren't starving - most of them seem to have full bellies but if this is how much they eat then I am in trouble when they grow bigger!!
p.s. if anyone wants any, I'm in Manchester (UK). I need to get rid of them all as I'm going travelling round Central America in September, I might take some and release them in their natural habitat haha.
I'm seriously struggling to keep up with their feeding! Bought 12 bags of daphnia on Thursday but about 50% of each bag is dead. I'm really annoyed at the pet shop, does this happen to anyone else?
Put 3 of the bags into a container with some mud and pellet things with the intention of starting my own culture but seems that they mostly died, or is that normal for the start of a culture? I don't trust it. Just going to see what happens. Am I meant to have a lid on the container?
I know baby brine shrimp are better but I couldn't get any of them ANYWHERE last week so I ordered some on ebay, they arrived dead. So annoyed at that as well.
Worst week for babies to arrive really, last Friday and this Monday are bank holidays so the pet shops were closed.
Gonna resort to buying some Sea Monkeys from Toys'R'Us tomorrow to feed to them in the meantime.
Anyway, just thought I'd share my current situation with you all. The babies aren't starving - most of them seem to have full bellies but if this is how much they eat then I am in trouble when they grow bigger!!
p.s. if anyone wants any, I'm in Manchester (UK). I need to get rid of them all as I'm going travelling round Central America in September, I might take some and release them in their natural habitat haha.