Little Fry Might Get Eaten?

[notyourstar7]

So i looked over the history of this board and found a few posts about moving fry, but I am still confused.

I have about 7 dwarf platy fry and they are still pretty small. they are about 3-4 weeks old now. I have them in a separate tank apart from the other tank which already has 2 dwarf adult male platy's and two african dwarf frogs.

I have a sponge filter in the big tank because I wanted to move the little ones, but now I am afraid they will get eaten by the big ones. What is a good size to move the fry in?

I'm splitting the fry between the big tank and little tank. The big tank is 10 gal and the little is 5 gal.

I'm trying to avoid getting more fry by just keeping the males and seeing if I can give the females to the local fish store.

Thank you!

 

[*Fishkies*]

Well once the fry are larger then their parents mouths you could add them back in. That is about the best way to gurantee them living and not being eaten.

 

[helterskelter]

Parent fish tend to leave their fry alone after a week old, but it then depends on what other fish u have as they love to eat abay fish.

I try to rear most of my fry with the adualts. and never have a major problem.