How To Care For Minnow Eggs. When feeding your minnows you can feed them any commercial fish food like minnow food catfish food or tropical fish food. Male fathead minnows are very territorial and the design of the ABI fathead minnow fortress maximizes nesting sites by limiting visual contact between neighboring males - meaning they will spend less energy on fighting and more energy on attracting females and caring for the eggs.
If they dont do a small water change every day until they do. Place ice cubes in a jar in the water thats inside the bait bucket to keep it sufficiently cool for the minnows. To try breeding them in a fish aquarium separate the sexes and feed them live fish food while keeping them cool and on an 8- to 10-hour light cycle for a month.
While minnows are self-sufficient and dont need extra feeding if you choose to feed them you would only need to do it once a week because they have other sources of food in the algae and insects around them.
Here are four secrets about breeding minnows that you need to know. To care for pond minnows you need to have clean oxygenated water plenty of plants for shelter floating plants to provide shade and keep the temperature low and lastly you need to feed them fish flakes one or two times a week. Alternatively separate the adults from the eggs. The eggs will hatch in approximately two days.