Advice needed Rainbow Cichlid fry?
- Thread starter Nm1
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You can go two ways.
Let's the parents do it
Obvious enough here, you can still supplement the fry diet with bbs or I used Hikari first bites. You will want the algae to grow in the parents tank. They will herd the fry around the tank to graze on it.
You be mom and dad
Take them out and raise them yourself in another tank. You will have to do all the feeding here.
Either or will work.
Let's the parents do it
Obvious enough here, you can still supplement the fry diet with bbs or I used Hikari first bites. You will want the algae to grow in the parents tank. They will herd the fry around the tank to graze on it.
You be mom and dad
Take them out and raise them yourself in another tank. You will have to do all the feeding here.
Either or will work.
So you think it is best if I set up a 20 Long Transfer out 20 gallons of tank water from the tank there in now and transfer them Via siphon then transfer the parents. There in a community tank I fear they would make a nice meal to some.
If your worried about the fry and want to keep them moving is an idea. Tho I wouldn't use used tank water. But a filter from the tank they was in, or some of the bio-rings from the old tank filter into filter of new tank. The beneficial bacteria don't like in the water but on surfaces.
Thank you. I was thinking more to use the old water to ease the stress of acclimation. Solid point regardless.
