Help....Blue Acara Fry Care
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the power jet prob to strong for them a simple air bubbler with a spong filter ideal. also try baby brine shrimp as a food choice. dont give up. same thing happen to me my flowerhorn breed in a 120 full of other fishes and i manage to keep half alive. also feed them 5x a day and do more water change from the same tank as thr adult.
Set up a ten gallon tank with heater and sponge filter fill the tank with water from the main tank. Adjust it to match the main tanks parameters.(temp mainly) Wait till the fry are just starting to swim. Suckem up with a turkey baster and transfer them to the ten.
I feed hatched baby brine shrimp.
I know some people feed crushed flakes or first bites. There are a lot of opinions on what to feed you have to find what works for you.
Keep there bellies full and the water clean.
That's it, easy right.
I feed hatched baby brine shrimp.
I know some people feed crushed flakes or first bites. There are a lot of opinions on what to feed you have to find what works for you.
Keep there bellies full and the water clean.
That's it, easy right.
Ṫḧäṅḳṡ a lot....I got a lot of good advice and so far the fry are 4 weeks old and I still have at least 40 of them. They look like fish now but are still small. Any do's and ɖօռ'ts now that I've gotten this far? At what point do I need to transfer them to a grow out tanks and I'm assuming that tank should have a backpack filter with substrate....Pʟɛasɛ advise
I would go bare bottom, easiest to clean and keeps waste low of you clean it every WC. keep up with the clean water as wellṪḧäṅḳṡ a lot....I got a lot of good advice and so far the fry are 4 weeks old and I still have at least 40 of them. They look like fish now but are still small. Any do's and ɖօռ'ts now that I've gotten this far? At what point do I need to transfer them to a grow out tanks and I'm assuming that tank should have a backpack filter with substrate....Pʟɛasɛ advise
Good luck
I belive once they are looking and acting like small versions of adults its time to move some to grow out.
How you do this is up to you. Bare bottom tanks are easy to clean, But I just dont like the looks of a bare tank.
I like to set my grow out tanks up with at least substrate. I still use sponge filters because I dont want any of the lil guys getting caught up in the filter intake.
At that point i also start feeding more of a regular diet. Flakes, Blood worms and such.
How you do this is up to you. Bare bottom tanks are easy to clean, But I just dont like the looks of a bare tank.
I like to set my grow out tanks up with at least substrate. I still use sponge filters because I dont want any of the lil guys getting caught up in the filter intake.
At that point i also start feeding more of a regular diet. Flakes, Blood worms and such.
Don't worry about feeding them multiple times per day.
Most of us have lives other than fish, and have to work.
Usually I feed my fry (all fish) just once a day. If I am motivated, I will feed them when I get home from work, and then again around midnight, but I have my lights in the fish room (no windows) set up to turn on at 2pm and off at 2am, so the fish are on a different time zone.
Point is, you can feed them twice in the evening, just make sure they have light to find the food. If you can get some microworms, that is an excellent first food for fry.. The movement of live food sometimes triggers them to eat. Now I have not bred Acuras, but with Apistogramma and Rams you get a better survival rate if you start them with microworms. Then you can start introducing the NLS powdered food. Decapsulated brine shrimp eggs are a good fry food too if you can get the fish to eat them.. you can buy them already decapsulated through mail order. Some people use golden pearls. I have some but have not tried them yet. OF course baby brine shrimp are good once the fry are large enough.
Try different foods.
In your situation, I would pull some babies out and put them into the 10 gallon. If you were just doing a species tank, it would probably be fine to leave the fry in with the parents, but they are going to struggle to guard the fry with the other fish in there. I have read for example that with apistogramma, the parents can fight off other fish during the day, but once it is dark, the fry are easy targets for the other fish.. I do not know if that is true or not, but makes sense.
So don't give up.. Breeding is not easy, keep trying other things.
