Originally Posted by ton

Rex,
Are you in Indonesia (Jakarta)?, you can find the frozen daphnia easily. It is very important to feed your bbr with daphnia that essentialy help your bbr to get high protein, until 2 month, then you can feed them with frozen dahpnia and frozen BW for next two weeks, after this better you start to give them frozen BW and pellet (Hikari from Japan is recommended). Are you keeping your ranchus in concrete pond, fiber, or aquarium? According to my experience, better you change the water every day, just change 25%-50% maximum instead of 100% every two days. Ranchu is very sensitive to the water changes, it may have an implication to the growth of ranchus.