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Okay thanks for the info. Before the fry my weekly water change was keeping the tank good. I will probably increase it to 25% two times a week when I get my python just to help the fry grow.
I looked for a while and I could not find any. Her behavior was very frantic also as if she was looking for them. I will look again when I get home at when I usually feed them. I don’t know if it was the male it could of been my cories. But my apisto was acting very weird and I think it was him.
When I got home today there was still no sign today. Tonight my male is back in spawning colors so I think they are all gone.Oh no. Are there any left.
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It could of very well been the cories but most of the fry vanished during the day so I don' know for sure it was them. As soon as I noticed the fry were gone my male apisto was acting very strange which led me to thinking it was him who did it. It could of very well been the cories however as I recently put a sponge intake on my HOB and they might of hid under this to get close to the babies during the day. I knew they did not have a good chance of making it but I thought I would give raising them a try as the opportunity presented it's self. I will try again next time they spawn and see I have better luck.This is not at all surprising, as I think I may have suggested earlier on. I would also consider the cories as the most likely candidates for the devouring fish, not the male Ram, though that is not out of the question. Cories are nocturnal, rams are not, so eggs or fry are extremely vulnerable during darkness.
I had a pair of Bolivian Rams who spawned four times and each time the female and male argued over this and that; the cories got the eggs three times, and the fry the fourth. Then the male killed the female. And this pair was in a 5-foot 115g tank with heavy planting.
Cichlid pairs must bond. They must select each other. Any male and female placed together may or may not bond, and results depend upon their bonding. So, in future, you may have success with these two fish, or you may not. As you have them, it is worth the try in case you luck out.
Recently my apisto has had another batch of fry. Would it be worth it to try to move them or should I just try to leave them with the mother again and see how it goes? If i decided to move them I would move as many of the fry as I could to a breeder box to grow out a little bit till I could add them back to the tank to continue growing out.