Peter, what is an ‘untrue’ vineager eel?? I never knew there could be more than one type.
I use these vineager eels, and microworms and small artemia for young fish, – I have never been able to produce those smaller food – or small artemia.
For the extensive breeding I think the fry actually feeds on all kinds of other stuff that comes with an ‘older’ aquarium, – small live food, infusoria which thrive good in particularly java moss.
My parvulus fry – which I now have in two tanks, and actually quite a few, – but they have not been feed at all, – they have survived by them selves, but the tanks they live in is actually quite old and established, and there must obviously be enough to feed on.
For intensive breeding this of course is not enough.