Growing these guys out has been a bit frustrating. My BBS stopped hatching well in the 2 weeks that I needed to be feeding them, requiring that I bring in some grindal worms as an emergency measure. They had a rather lean few weeks there. Once I got them on dry foods I quickly realized that the nutritional value of those foods had gone to nothing… despite staying on top of their water changes like a crazy person, I kept seeing topline issues. That’s not normal for this spawn and much to my dismay, I ended up needing to cull almost all of the biggest fish and quite a few of the smaller ones too. I’m left with about 40 of the mid-sized fish, which, at 9 weeks now are on average around 3/4″ BL. The biggest ones, if they hadn’t been culled would have been at least 1″ now. Anyhow.. pics.
