🎤 As an old preacher once said:

“First I tells ’em what I’se gonna tell ’em. Then I tells ’em. Then I tells ’em what I done told ’em.”

• 🟢 Stage 1: Green Water
• 🧪 Stage 2: Fine Pond Infusoria
• 🔬 Stage 3: Larger pond life (Brachionus rubens)
• 🦐 Stage 4: Sifted Daphnia, Baby Brine Shrimp

• 🌾 Flour-sized prepared food
• 🥚 Infusion of boiled egg yolk
• ⚗️ Cultured infusoria
• 🧊 Grated shrimp, fish, or crab
• 🍢 Small dry food

• 🌿 Stage 1: Pond Infusoria
• 🔬 Stage 2: Brachionus rubens
• 🧊 Stage 3: Sifted Daphnia or Brine Shrimp
• 🧡 Stage 4: Adult Daphnia

• ⚗️ Cultured infusoria, fine prepared food
• 🫗 Finely grated shrimp, fish, or crab
• 🔪 Chopped white worms or larger dry foods
• 🪱 Small whole white worms or larger 3rd-stage foods

• 🔬 Stage 1: Brachionus rubens, Sifted Daphnia, Brine Shrimp
• 🐛 Stage 2: Medium Daphnia
• 🦠 Stage 3: Adult Daphnia
• 🦟 Stage 4: Mosquito larvae, chopped earthworms, adult Daphnia

• 🍞 Small dry food, egg infusion
• 🍤 Grated shrimp, crab, or fish
• 🍱 Larger bits of prepared foods, or shrimp/crab/fish
• 🥩 Finely chopped raw liver or beef

“Sifted Daphnia” – Filtering live Daphnia through a fine mesh (like a tea strainer) to separate smaller sizes for younger fish.

“Larger 3rd-stage foods” – Continue with Stage 3 foods, increasing size or portion as fry grow.