Apistogramma Cacatuoides

[mikster]

Ok so recently my apistos bred and i had a batch of fry, alot of them didnt survive, when i got back off my holiday to canada the remaining 5 babies had dissapeared, i think my apisto has laid eggs again the other day, i cant remove the eggs as she has laid them at the back of the tank under a large peice of wood that has plants attached, my question is, once they hatch shall i try and transfer them to another tank? should i transfer the mother as well or will they be ok alone?

I have just set up a 15 gallon tank for them which is bare bottom and had a peice of wood in it with java fern and anubia on it. Im running a heater and a small sponger filter but once i move stuff over i will move a spare filter out of my main tank into that tank so it has a mature filter.

 

[thegnu]

when my apisto's breed and i want to keep any fry i wait until they are free swimming and then i syphon them in to a bucket. i then get a glass and fill it with half water from their tank they where born in and half of the water from the tank they will be raised in. then i use a dropper from an api water test kit that i've cut the thin tip off and suck the fry up one at a time and drop these into the glass, then i tip the lot into the tank for raising. i would leave the parents where they are, their fry will be fine on their own but they will need freshly hatched baby brine shrimp every day. here's some i've bred.

 

[mikster]

Thanks for the reply, i think the eggs may have hatched but now i believe they have been transferred to in inside of an upturned statue thing so i will probably just try and lift that out and put it into a big jug and then mix it with half the water like you have suggested and then release them into there new tank.