Gouramis ~Hi ya'll ,Fri nite my two feamles lay eggs.Lucky because I'm redoing my 55.I had them in a planted 5 gal .Just the 3 of them.Females are now out .Males taking care of them.I plan on taking him today.But really don't want too.He's doing bang up job taking care of frys babyies that hatch somtime yesterday or last nite.And have fry food.Cover the hell out of the intake filter.What elas can I do.This is all new to me.Help !!!! :O)I understand that the male is taking out after 3 days ?Why, will he eat them ? Diana
From: crellin_j_e <jcrellin0661@gmail.com>
To: tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:56 AM
Subject: [tropical fish club] Re: Jewel Cichlid Fry help please
thanks, unfortunately, woke up this morning and they are all gone.
I am sure they will have more.
--- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, "Ray" <sevenspringss@...> wrote:
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> John,
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> The answer to your question depends on how many fry you'd like to save -- just as with any other fry hatched, or given birth by livebearers. Usually, no matter the hiding places, when fry are left in a community tank, not many survive. After all, your other Cichlids will have up to 6 or 8 weeks to find these fry before the fry get too big for them to swallow. Odds are not very good at having any survivors although a very few often make it.
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> Once the fry become free-swimming -- which (if they hatched 3 days ago) should be either later today or tomorrow morning, it will be impossible for the parents to successfully defend their entire brood as there will always be stragglers and wanderers, not to mention the other fish will be relentless in trying to get to them.
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> If you're looking to save most of them, remove them to their own rearing tank (without the parents). Start feeding them newly hatched brine shrimp as soon as they're all free-swimming, even if you have to give them frozen BBS until you get a live BBS hatch.
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> Ray
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> --- In tropicalfishclub@yahoogroups.com, "crellin_j_e" <jcrellin0661@> wrote:
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> > My Jewel Cichlids just had fry. I am new to this. they are in a 75 gallon tank with lots of hiding space and 15 total cichlids in the tank. They are defending the fry quite well right now.
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> > anyone suggest what i should do now? should I try to remove the fry and raise them in a separate tank? i figure them to have been hatched 3 days ago.
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> > thanks for any help
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> > John C
> > Pittsburgh, PA
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