Dovii Fry Help

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I've had my dovii for over a year now and they have had 8 batches of fry and I never have removed them from their parents and I would say 80% of them have survived. I let the parents take care of them, dovii fry are pretty hardy fish and I found out that they survived two weeks, along with the parents, without food after my automatic feeder broke...The parents take very good care of them and I have sold the fry to local fish stores, members of MFK, etc. I just fed them brine shrimp in my 125 gallon and they have grown up just fine...as of now I have a batch of 20 left in my 125 and they are growing quickly!
 
Thanks gizmo and japtastic, that was extremely helpful!
 
Who ever you decide to move, just make sure whatever the tank the fry's are in that you're using just a air stone, if you use a regular filtration system the fry's will get sucked up.....
 
oHsNaP1337;2714791; said:
Who ever you decide to move, just make sure whatever the tank the fry's are in that you're using just a air stone, if you use a regular filtration system the fry's will get sucked up.....
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Yeah, I had to turn off my ac110 because it was sucking babies up, but the biowheel 400 thats running on there now hasnt claimed any lives, at least not enough to be noticable.
 
It's best to just leave them with their parents. Dovii know what to do with their offspring. At first, they may eat their first batch. But at each subsequent batch the parent dovii will become better. After enough batches (supposedly 1 or 2) the parent dovii will get the hang of things and will know what to do.
 
SOKO;2722761; said:
It's best to just leave them with their parents. Dovii know what to do with their offspring. At first, they may eat their first batch. But at each subsequent batch the parent dovii will become better. After enough batches (supposedly 1 or 2) the parent dovii will get the hang of things and will know what to do.
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Awesome, that makes everything easy!
 
I would remove them if your are concerned about losing them to the parents.


I had a breeding pair about a year or so ago. The parents did great with them but I moved them into thier own tank 2-3 weeks after they became free swimmers.
I started them in a 10 gallon then moved them into a 20 gallon tall. (culling them each time I moved them)

I feed them baby brine shrimp and crushed hikari gold pellets. Its great watching the lil ones grow...but good luck if you are going to sell them. I had a horrible time getting stores to take them and did not have the time to mess with shipping them.

all in all, breeding dovii has been one of my coolest moments in fish keeping. Good Luck
 
I have several batches of Parachromis fry in my tank at any given time. With the loisellis, there's usually two generations going at the same time. While most end up being eaten (not by the parents), I've got some in there now that hatched back in September.

For the first month or so, I don't even feed them. They eat off of plants and decorations and what the others spit out. When I think they're big enough, I feed them frozen bloodworms. I'm positive that if I only had a single pair, they would survive to grow into juvie size in the same tank as the parents. The biggest fry still alive in the tank that hatched back in September (see sig line for stock) is now over an inch long. There's less than five of these out of approximately 4,000 though.

Good luck and bring me some dovii fry, lol. I need a nice male to complete my tank.:naughty:
 
keep the fry and the parents by themselves, take everything else out. and see what goes on from there
 
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