H. Multispinosa First Egg Spawn! :)

[CrazyAirborne]

and today i have free swimming!!! woo hooo! im so excited, but i can already see the female is alot more anxious, and shes constantly darting around trying to keep the fry from swimming too far, or too high. i set up a breeder net and squirted about 5 fry in there just to increase my odds incase something happens to the main batch. I have a grow out tank i am getting ready as well. ill post the video this evening.

 

[CrazyAirborne]

 

[likescichlids]

wow sweet

 

[minnnt]

Mine are also free swimming today! I have a similar amount to yours... my question is, what the hell do i do with about 150 baby rainbow cichlids?

The amazing thing is though is that i have only had them a week and they have free swimming fry already!

And just to make it worse i also have about 50-80 Honduran Red Points of the same age...

LOL!!! I'm going to need a 8ft grow out tank!

 

[CrazyAirborne]

Mine are also free swimming today! I have a similar amount to yours... my question is, what the hell do i do with about 150 baby rainbow cichlids?

The amazing thing is though is that i have only had them a week and they have free swimming fry already!

And just to make it worse i also have about 50-80 Honduran Red Points of the same age...

LOL!!! I'm going to need a 8ft grow out tank!

haha thats funny, ive only had mine 2 weeks! yeah I have a 30g grow out tank getting ready, and ive moved about 25-30 to a 10g tank as well. Ive seen their number shrink today alone, the platty fry who are a month old are really trying to eat them (and ive seen them succeed) they fry keep swimming up and then they are pretty much free food. i noticed my harelquins getting curious as well.

 

[CrazyAirborne]

so these fry seem to have zero concept of danger, i mean, compared to platty fry, these guys are just clueless, swimming all out in the open and stuff, they are getting picked off left and right, and theres not much i can do about it. the female is trying her best, but they are all swimming in different directions. kinda bumming me out.

 

[Kerri Gronow]

awww the female sounds determined... but it must be difficult keeping that many fry together lol ... she must be a great wee mum lol

 

[CrazyAirborne]

sadly, over the course of one day, all the fry ive left in with the mom have all been eaten. I never once saw either mom or dad eating them, so thats great, but the plattys and harelquins got to em. luckily, i have pulled about 25 to a grow out tank, and have another 10 or so in a breeder net in the main tank, we'll see how it goes.

 

[minnnt]

Such a shame mate. At least you have a few saved though.

Try and remove the rest of the fry and do a cold water change to try and get them to spawn again