Reddit reviews NewLife Spectrum Grow Fry Starter Fish Food, 50g

Going to refer back to here
buy some de-encapsulated brine shrimp eggs or Fry starter

As far as survival rate, it should be pretty good as long as you have nothing else in the tank that will eat them. The parents will protect the young, and each spawn will also help protect the next and so forth. As far as the breeding cycle, it takes 6 to 7 days from egg laying to hatching. And they spawn about every 3 weeks in ideal conditions. So expect the next spawn about 3 weeks after the first sighting of little fish. And the spawn size will likely get bigger each time. Hopefully you have something lined up with your LFS or have a way to sell them, unless you plan on getting multiple tanks or just one really huge tank.

Depending on what you have for filtering, I would look into getting something to put on the filter intake if you want to minimize babies getting sucked into your filter. While I've had baby plecos survive and grow to a good size in a filter, I don't believe the same would happen with baby Daffodils. My local LFS sold me some foam like this and I cut it to size to put around the intake. You'll need to clean it periodically as it acts just like an additional pre-filter filter.

So I have a 1 gallon jar with 10 Malaysian Trumpet Snails and three RCS.


Yesterday, I did a water change and fed a bit of small fry starter formula that I recently got.


I noticed today that there was a hint of algae growing on the walls (which wasn't there before yesterday) and tons of white 'bugs' crawling on the wall.



What are they, and what caused them to suddenly appear out of nowhere? They weren't there yesterday.


Also, are they harmful? If so, what should I do? More water change / shorter period of light?


I'm wondering if my shrimps will eat them..