Jewel Cichlid Fry

[david_voodoo]

Hi there,

As you may or may not of read in my welcome post I have a 30l Biorb, which I kept 2 Jewel Cichlids in. Unfortunately due to their aggressiveness they killed all the other fish in the tank. After that the decision was made to rehome them into a tank my friend (naughtyt) was setting up for cichlids (32 of them if I remember right).

A few days after a few days of the parents being removed we noticed several small things moving round in the bottom of the "empty" tank. On closer inspection we noticed they were actually cichlid fry!

Now about a week after the parents were removed we have about 50-60 fry swimming round the tank.

So my question is, will they be okay without their parents in the tank? and whats the best thing to feed them? I've read on another site that they eat part of the egg sacks in the first few days then are okay on flake food thats been finely crumbled, is this right?

Cheers

 

[skittz]

if they are free swiming they should be fine just powder up some flake for them as it sinks they will eat it when they are big enough ( 2-3cm) to eat pellets get ahold of some discus colour and growth food they are a small pellet its made by aqua magic it will grow them up quickly and colour them up nice and fast too i ifnd when i have jewel fry they like the temp to be around 27 degrees celcius (sorry for my bad spelling) lol also make sure that u keep the ph maintanied and the amonia maintained turn your filter down or go and get a bubbler sponge filter (they are used for breeding) just in case u lose some to the filter as they can be sucked into it lol...
80% of them should survive as the bigger of the babies tend to pick off the smaller ones as they get bigger so if u want all to survive then when they start to get big sepperate the smaller ones from the bigger ones

 

[david_voodoo]

Thanks for the reply,

I'm now looking for a better tank, the biorb is good to have as "furniture" but not practical as a tank. Might rehome the fry into the new tank so I can set up dividers and get the marine conversion for the the biorb and keep a few clown fish in it lol.

I'll keep you guys posted with the fry's progress.

 

[david_voodoo]

Well yesterday, I went to work and I have about 50 fry, came home and I have about 5

I think some of them have died but can't seem them so I suspect the other fry have eaten them

 

[NaughtyT]

aw noooooooooooooooo

On another note the parents are doing well and the bigger of the 2 has gone really bright again over the last couple of days,they were hiding alot but they are very active now,i have added another jewel too