Red Bay Snooks

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Morledzep

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where my cichla are
Being new or mostly new to Peacock Bass and absolutely fascinated by them, i found that i'm easily fooled.. a very nice asian couple run a nice, clean aquarium store in a city near me, all their fish are healthy and their tanks clean, and i like the folks a lot.

But this tank was labelled, "Albino Peacock Bass" $39 each. and there were only 2 left. So being me, i had to have em.. lol.

Come to find out they aren't peacock bass at all (figured that part out in less than 24 hours). But they are beautiful and they do get along in my big tank very nicely with the peacock bass, arowanna, plecos (yes plural) and crayfish.

What i wasn't prepared for is them breeding.. they have laid eggs twice now. The first time our redtailed catfish ate the eggs, so we moved her to the tank with the oscars (they are old buddies and get along fine). This time they laid the eggs inside the castle decoration. it's been at least 2 days.. maybe 3 as we aren't real sure when the egg laying started and finished..

What happens next and how soon? help!!!

Catherine
 
i should put them in a 10 gal tank with a bubbler? or a foam filter? what do i feed them? baby brine shrimp? or is there something smaller?
 
With my firemouth and convict fry I just feed regular ground up flake food. I keep them in a 10 gallon tank after they are 4-7 days old. Your snooks are cichlids as are the cons and FMs so they should be fairely similar.
 
Bderick67;831077; said:
I just feed regular ground up flake food.

i have some flake food that was given to us when we bought used aquariums with living fish in them.. but i'm not a fan of fish kibble or flake foods.

we buy brine shrimp.. and i've seen the frozen baby brine shrimp. I also see beef heart chunks in containers at a couple of the LFS's (see i'm learning) that we go to. i just bought 30 lbs of beef heart for the dogs, can i blenderize some of that for the fry? :D
 
Is blenderize a proper scientific term or did you get that from Alton Brown?
 
I did?....Coooooooolll
 
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