Green Splendida

[Vince]

after so many times laying eggs and the male eating all the "frys"...anyone recommend a few techniques to keep the fry alive so that i can start a new market for them? these guys costs me a couple of bills to get them to breed, and the male only eats live feeders...ain't that a b*tch!?>>>???

 

[milkman407]

When the moma lays the eggs take the dad out right away. and when they get big enough put them into a net and put them into like a 10 gallon tank untill they are big enough to go with the moma and dad again.

 

[Nandus]

"When the moma lays the eggs take the dad out right away. and when they get big enough put them into a net and put them into like a 10 gallon tank untill they are big enough to go with the moma and dad again."

Why would he do that?? Like all other Central American cichlids, Petenia splendida is a bi-parental species. Both parents are involved in the care of the spawn (fanning and cleaning eggs, corralling fry, ect).

Once you remove them from the care of the parents, it wouldn't be a good idea to re-introduce the young fish back to their parent’s tank. The parents would have already lost their parental instincts and think of them as food.

Just keep them with their parents until they are around an inch or so (then you can start to sell them) and they should be ok.