Hey guys, I have a 55 gallon assorted african cichlid tank. At the moment I have an Acei holding for about 2-3 weeks, and a yellow lab maybe 1-3 ( shes smaller and hides more than my acei so I cant say when I noticed she stopped eating.) I have a 10 gallon tank I have had running with water I took from my main tank for about a week now...what would be the best thing for me to do? I think I want some of these to survive so maybe I can keep a couple and or give them away...
Acei and yellow Lab holding. Advice appreciated .
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Personally, I just left mine in the main tank. I always got a few fry that survived to adulthood. I wasn't trying to breed them so I just let nature and natural selection take its course. Didn't do anything special.
EastBay;5113997; said:
Yea, that was my first plan. Now I am second guessing myself. I am just wondering if I put both holding in the 10 gallon would they eat the fry when they are released or harass eachother or eachothers fry. Maybe a divider is necessary?
Ok. I bought a breeder basket for the main tank and stripped the mother Acei. I got about 30 fry. Any info on how to feed them when in this contraption? I got "fry food" and spiriluna that maybe I can crush?
Brooks74;5115516; said:
Yea I actually saw them trying. So far so good. I fealt so bad stripping the mother lol
Brooks74;5115516; said:
I just got home after after a 10 hour shift at work...I lost about 5. Im reading that in the beginning some fry will get killed off this way and the rest will start to smarten up. I lost maybe 5 I think. I want to bring them to my 10 gallon but its about 2-3 degrees colder and I don't want to kill them with shock... its filter is not as established as my main one only about 1 1/2 to 2 weeks circulating 10 gallons of water for my main tank. If any more disappear by tomorrow I will probably get rid of a % of the 10 gallon water and put some more main tank water in...then add the fry. Everywhere I go online I get different advice I guess its just take what advice you can, remember it, and apply it as intelligently as possible.
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I just added all these responses to kinda add to the collection of overall data here. So I could learn from other peoples responses, and so maybe in the future other newbies like myself could look at my post and maybe learn something. Im gunna end the thread here unless I get other responses. Sorry for being annoying
i always strip my yellow labs after about two weeks. then i move the fry to a different ten gallon set-up. if you want to leave the fry in the breeder basket put some gravel on the bottom so the other fish cant get to them as easily.