Just a quick note on the easy way I get top tucker (live food) for tiny fry. Been doing this for half a life-time but never heard of anyone else doing it so I thought I would share it around.
Get a bucket. I use a 10 litre Pool Chlorine or Plasterers' bucket because they are more stable. (Actually I use two buckets and two 'Eskys' {insulated containers} during Summer).
Fill it about 2/3 full of tank water when doing a water change and add a small piece, say a quarter of a cubic inch, of bad pumpkin or other vegetable matter. (Try the bottom of the vege compartment in the fridge). Put it down the yard a bit because it will get a bit smelly and you need that.
As soon as it starts to get high, you will find little brown rafts around the side. (If you look around sunup time or at night, they are very pale cream). These are mosquito eggs, and if you gently ease them onto your finger or float them into a plastic cup or other suitable receptacle you can refloat them in your fry tanks and the fry will have live food all day. Talk about demand feeding for fry! There are hundreds of eggs in a large raft and the newly hatched wrigglers are (much) smaller than newly hatched brine shrimp.
In North America you will be able to harvest about 9 months per year in temperate climates, from Massachusetts to Marylands and points west, and all year round in Florida, New Orleans, Louisi ...
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