Cichlid Fry hiding and feed

[Dark Jester]

Update:

I removed the grass and they're cruising along the bottom. I had to remove the mom because she ate a couple.

Dark Jester - I followed your crushing the flake method and it worked perfectly! They ate it up. They're currently so tiny that they don't show up on my camera. I might have to bust out the macro lens

Cool, glad it worked out. I agree it's hard to get pics of fry. I don't even have a camera with different lenses, just a nikon 'coolpix' L22 or something, digital. Was just trying to get a pic a little bit ago of some wigglers that my cons just hatched yesterday. Getting any sort of a close up with details is nearly impossible.

I'll have to wait and see if the mom moves them up next to the glass at some point. Unfortunately my fish budget doesn't have room for a better camera in it.

 

[silent1mezzo]

So, I got my first female into the growout tank and stripped her on tuesday. All of the fry are healthy and growing.

My 2nd female looked extremely far along so I was planning on moving her Thursday Night. By the time I got home she had released and all of the fry seemed to have been eaten. Today I was cleaning out the gravel and I found one of the fry still remaining.

I got the fry moved into the growout tank! I'm really sad she released them before I had the chance, the one fry that I saved is really good looking.

I'll have pictures up by the end of the weekend when they're big enough to capture.

 

[silent1mezzo]

Here's the best picture I could get of them.

As you can see they're definitely hybrids, half are pink and the other half are darker with stripes.

Still not sure exactly what kind they are.