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Old September 22nd 04, 01:37 PM
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"Mean_Chlorine" wrote in message
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Often one hear the suggestion to use boiled egg yolk as feed for
egglayer fry, e.g. by dipping it in water and squeezing out "juice"
through a fine cloth.
However, I can find no estimate on the size of the particles produced.
It's obviously very small, but how small? Does anyone know
approximately what size particles you get with "egg-yolk-juice"?



IMO, Does it actually matter? Taking into account that egg-yolk is very
soft, I think that counts more than what size would. Its really how
'available' the food is to the fry. Obviously the smaller and softer the
particle size is the better. I'm sure that even if a big piece (compared to
the fry) were to be used they would still have access to it as it will be
soft and eventually small flakey particles would be available from the
bigger piece. This would be havoc on water quality though! Unless of course
you're a compulsive water changer
Would'nt it be less bother to just culture some 'green water'? Or plop in an
algae covered rock?
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