Baby Rams... Lots Of Baby Rams

[annka5]

My rams have spawned in my 75 gall discus tank (also contains cardinal tetras). I think the fry hatched sometime yesterday, or possibly the night before. They moved the fry to a new crater-in-the-sand yesterday evening (by mouth), and are at the stage of picking up any that wander to far away and spitting them back into the "nest" so I'm pretty sure that they won't eat them! The discus are OK, occasionally getting chased away if they stray too close to the fry "nest" (despite being a million times bigger than the rams!) but don't seem to be particualrly upset /stressed by it.
What do I do? Nothing much, or move them (they are absolutely tiny so am not sure I even could move them)? food...? They are absolutely tiny at the moment, and there seems to be bazillions of them. Any advice?

 

[DanDanUK]

My rams have spawned in my 75 gall discus tank (also contains cardinal tetras). I think the fry hatched sometime yesterday, or possibly the night before. They moved the fry to a new crater-in-the-sand yesterday evening (by mouth), and are at the stage of picking up any that wander to far away and spitting them back into the "nest" so I'm pretty sure that they won't eat them! The discus are OK, occasionally getting chased away if they stray too close to the fry "nest" (despite being a million times bigger than the rams!) but don't seem to be particualrly upset /stressed by it.
What do I do? Nothing much, or move them (they are absolutely tiny so am not sure I even could move them)? food...? They are absolutely tiny at the moment, and there seems to be bazillions of them. Any advice?

I personally if you didn't wish to move them just yet i wouls add a divider into the tank which will keep the other fish away while keeping the spawning adults close, if you can't do that and your worried that they will be eaten then just simply move them to another nursery tank until they get big enough not to be eaten.

 

[Katchan]

Just quiclky to add the tetra's are much more risk than the discus as well, they have the speed to dash down and grab a quick morsel and be gone again before the rams can really react

KC

 

[annka5]

h'mmm, hadn't thought of the tetras as such a threat, good point... I think a divider is the best answer, as am terrified of damaging the fry in trying to catch them to move them to another tank.
If anything, I think they are too small jsut now to be of interest to the other fish! Not yet food-sized or something.
Will ad a divider and see how they get on. Thanks for the advice!