So I am positive the parents either dont know or dont care which fry is which. One day most of the fry stay with the cubans, the next day they are with the carpintis. I can also see that some of the fry look different, but stay in the same group. The fry with black stripes are the cubans, yet both batches have them mixed in. Interesting
ADOPTED FRY??
- Thread starter John Rambo
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Man, I would be so tempted to put all of the fry in another tank to grow them out.
I get so impatient. Fry from Convicts live and grow out no problem. But when a fish "I like" spawns, the fry end up eaten or sucked up by my filter. I have since then fixed the filter issue but we will see if I can keep any of the others.
I get so impatient. Fry from Convicts live and grow out no problem. But when a fish "I like" spawns, the fry end up eaten or sucked up by my filter. I have since then fixed the filter issue but we will see if I can keep any of the others.
i would also like to know when they fry is up for grabs, the cubans have been tempting me for quite some time now
wow thats alot o fry. i read in a book that cichlids do adopt other fry mostly as protection of their own. and they can tell the differance. they make the adopted fry stay at the out side edges in case of prediters their own fry dosent get eaten but the others do. but you should be fine concidering there arent any prediters.
That's interesting, the pictures look good too, I might have the same thing happen because my Blood Parrots and Convicts are getting ready to breed again.
