I made up some of my own food a while back as per McEve's recipe (thanks McEve, my larger fish love it
), and gave a little to my fry last night. I had done this in the past and they left it alone in preference to other things I was giving them at the same time. I figured they just needed to get used to it and I've been giving a little every few days. When I checked on them this morning there was one little guy just kinda parked out where I usually put their food at night. I thought this was a little strange as they usually at least move when I come in the room. Sure enough, when I reached into the tank it just sat there and bobbed a little, obviously dead. I pulled it out and looked for any clue as to what may have caused this. Its belly was extremely distended, not just full, almost bloated looking, and there was something in its mouth. I scraped it out with my fingernail and a piece of shrimp about an inch long pulled free from its throat. The piece of food was not much thicker than a hair, but it was obviously enough.
Dr.P - I was wrong when I said that losing fry always hurts. This is much, much worse.
Val
It is very important to let the food processor work on the shrimps especially to really grind it up. It doesn't take much before a small fry choke though!
. Try not to beat yourself up about it too much. Did you use shelled prawns in the mix? If not this could have been the problem.
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) but putting it into practice really is the hard part. Along with sifting through good and bad info, you have to deal with the little details that may not have come up yet, and that's where the problems begin 
I guess they like their roughage.
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