Kribs Are The Worst Parents Ever!

[The-Wolf]

Thought that would get your attention.
now that you're here...

My kribs have had yet another batch of fry, subsiquently eating the previous batch;
is there anyway of stopping them eating this lot?

this is by far the biggest batch that I've had, easily double the previous lot, and I would
really like to see them get bigger than a few cms.

 

[breezer40]

I dont have much luck with Kribs but I took the last lot of fry away and put them in their own tank which worked for me.

 

[John_Nicholson]

If the instincts on the parents don't kick in pretty quick just syphon the fry out and raise them in their own tank. They don't need the parents.

-john

 

[black angel]

Its pointless here where i live breeding them as no one wants them.
Congrats on the babies and hope you get them to the selling stage.

 

[The-Wolf]

I currently don't have a spare tank to raise them in
would they be safe in a tank with pygmy cories corydoras pygmaeus and
glowlight rasboras Trigonostigma hengeli?

EDIT
I just found a breeding trap I forgot I had
would that be ok for the time being?

 

[black angel]

They are great parents and wont let anything near them. I would suggest having a night light of some kind so the parents can still watch the young all round the clock.

Dont put them in a breeding trap, they wont get the circulation and its too small. The only danger i see is from the parents themselves

 

[John_Nicholson]

When they are this small you don't need a tank. Get a plastic shoebox. Change the water nightly and they can live there for at least a couple of weeks. If you really want to raise them you can create a floating shoebox. I use to use it to raise angelfish fry. Take a plastic shoebox. Cut a hole about 3 inch by 3 inch in the bottom at one end. Use a hot glue gun and glue fine mess netting over the hole. In the side wall at the other end of the shoebox cut a round hole and put a unpside down L lift tube in the hole. Put in an airline and a piece of sponge(to keep other fish from swimming up lift tube). You can float the shoebox anyway you want. I normally usr 2 pieces of PCV on either side. The are capped and tied with string to the shoebox. You float this thing in the tank with the parents. The fry are contained and safe from the parents. They have the advantage of having large water volume. You can keep them like this until they are to large for the parents to eat.

 

[aardvarkfromspace]

I would leave them, eventually the parents will understand babies aren't for eating. You will be a lot happier a few broods later when the parents take care of them and you have to do nothing out of the ordinary to get them to survive... Parents that raise their babies are much more useful then parents that will just spawn. I would leave them in and let them work things out themselves... might take a few more spawns but it will be worth it in the end.

 

[wuvmybetta]

Just keep the parents so well fed that they won't have enough room left to devour their children And congrats! (good luck,Wolf!)

 

[lljdma06]

Just keep the parents so well fed that they won't have enough room left to devour their children And congrats! (good luck,Wolf!)

Shouldn't this be in African cichlids? Just curious. Great job with the babies Wolf. I've raised quite a few batches of fry. The parents ate the first few. I added more hiding places and a few plants, and boom, they felt confident to not eat the babies. Sometimes they eat them when they're stressed, or when something's not quite right with the batch. They seem to know. But you did accomplish your task, and this thread has been read.