German Blue Ram Fry :)

[Gill]

Wow Congrats, they look lovely

 

[jasong48]

i have eggs but the rams seem to be eating them

 

[fluttermoth]

They're probably just a young pair, and need time to learn what they should be doing.

Incidentally, for anyone who may ever have breeding egg layers, a packet of decapsulated brine shrimp egggs stashed away some where is great insurance against an unexpected brood.

They're very fine, like dust, and almost all fry can manage them, and as you don't need to hatch them, you don't have to worry about not having food available at that all important moment when the fry become free swimming.

 

[Man of fish]

What's decapsulated brine shrimp?

 

[fluttermoth]

Brine shrimp eggs normally have a shell, or capsule on the outside, so you can't feed then directly to fish, as the shell isn't edible. That means you have to hatch the eggs out, in salty water, and then separate the shrimp from the shell.

It takes about three days for them to hatch, so you have to know that you have eggs and get the shrimps hatching ASAP, or you won't have food ready by the time the fry become free swimming, and they could possibly starve.

Decapsulated brine shrimp eggs have had the shell removed, so they don't need to be hatched (in fact, the ones I have are a sort that won't hatch anyway), so you can feed them to fry just as they are.

They're not quite as nutritious as baby brine shrimp, but are nearly as good.

 

[Man of fish]

Where do you get them?