My Convict pair ate both batch of their eggs laid. And they are just matured and new parents. Now male chases female and female is seriously injured. So I had to move the female to another tank and introduce a new female for the male so that they breed again! Now the new couple is showing breeding rituals. This time my plan is to remove egg pot (once laid eggs) from the tank and move it to another tank so that parents wont eat their eggs. So i need suggestion how to self breed convict cichlid eggs? Please help! Its a 20 gallon tank
How to self breed Convict Cichlid eggs?
- Thread starter Niyaz
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Here's how I raise any cichlid fry artificially.
Although given time, parents will learn to do it themselves.
I remove whatever the spawns on (with out exposing eggs to air).
Put the egg covered rock or pot in a tank, with an air stone near enough to simulate the fanning action the parents do, without so much current that they break off the substrate.
I keep the air stone near, even after they hatch and are wrigglers.
The round black dishes are brine shrimp hatching containers, where artemis eggs are hatched and used for first foods when the fry are free swimming.
They can also be raised in a breeder box, hung in the same tank they were laid in.
above are wriggler using their yolk sacs for food, at this stage do not feed.
Below free swimmers.
do not feed until they reach the free swimming stage, then multiple small feedings per day are best.
Although given time, parents will learn to do it themselves.
I remove whatever the spawns on (with out exposing eggs to air).
Put the egg covered rock or pot in a tank, with an air stone near enough to simulate the fanning action the parents do, without so much current that they break off the substrate.
I keep the air stone near, even after they hatch and are wrigglers.
The round black dishes are brine shrimp hatching containers, where artemis eggs are hatched and used for first foods when the fry are free swimming.
They can also be raised in a breeder box, hung in the same tank they were laid in.
above are wriggler using their yolk sacs for food, at this stage do not feed.
Below free swimmers.
do not feed until they reach the free swimming stage, then multiple small feedings per day are best.
Here's how I raise any cichlid fry artificially.
Although given time, parents will learn to do it themselves.
I remove whatever the spawns on (with out exposing eggs to air).
Put the egg covered rock or pot in a tank, with an air stone near enough to simulate the fanning action the parents do, without so much current that they break off the substrate.
I keep the air stone near, even after they hatch and are wrigglers.
The round black dishes are brine shrimp hatching containers, where artemis eggs are hatched and used for first foods when the fry are free swimming.
They can also be raised in a breeder box, hung in the same tank they were laid in.
above are wriggler using their yolk sacs for food, at this stage do not feed.
Below free swimmers.
do not feed until they reach the free swimming stage, then multiple small feedings per day are best.
Thanks again.. now i started artificial breeding.. they are wigglers since today morning.. how long would it take for them to start free swimming.. so that i will start feeding them brine shrimps..
From the pic looks like detritus worms which some aquariums will have them. They will show up if you over feed or don't gravel vac the substrate. There is another specie of worm that will glide across the bottom on the glass planarian worm. They may be harmful but not sure.