Feeding convict fry

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I got a breeding pair on Convicts (male 3" female 2.5") that have not only seen off but are terrorising a 9" synspilum if it even goes within 2 foot of their brood!
 
I tossed a sponge filter into the tank that I'm keeping the convicts in, I often find the babies swarm to it and eat off of it. This may be something all you other convict breeders might try?


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Okay ill try that. I took a couple out to raise myself. See if there's going to be any difference between my half and the half I left with the parents


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I didn't know con parents would crush up food for them. That's pretty cool. I've seen the parents stir up the sand and fry would eat anything that came up.

I've heard for fastest growth baby brine shrimp eggs are best and decapsulated baby brine shrimp eggs. Decapsulated eggs are nice because you don't have to hatch them and are supposedly more nutrious.

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Brine shrimp is the nutritional equivalent of iceberg lettuce. It cannot be the main diet. Their isnt a fish out their that can survive off of it alone. Fish fed a diet primarily consisting of brine shrimp will die within 3 months due to starvation.
 
congrats! i just started raising some convict fry myself. my pair looked like they were ready to spawn at the store so I made sure to get them. sure enough, 2 days in the new tank and they spawned. anyways, instead of crushing the flakes as your putting them in I put mine in a bag with some freeze dried blood worms and a couple freeze dried krill, laid it flat on a table and pulverized it with the cans of food ;) worked awesome and much faster and thorough than using your fingers.
 
Okay thanks for all the help. They're not free swimming yet. I turn off the filter for a bit wen i do water changes. Then wait a bit for the water to settle. Don't want them ending up in the filter


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jagster said:
Okay thanks for all the help. They're not free swimming yet. I turn off the filter for a bit wen i do water changes. Then wait a bit for the water to settle. Don't want them ending up in the filter


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I had a filter incident earlier this week... About 100 of my fry swam past the intake and all got sucked in. The parents were moving the group across the tank when It happened. That's when I just added a sponge filter till I can find a sponge to put over the intake.


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