Removing wrigglers

[SMS]

I have a fry tank set up and my C. kraussii eggs have just hatched
Siphoning them seems like it would be a little rough, Ive heard that a turkey baseter works and someone suggested that I wait until there free swimming and then siphon them.
With other cichlids Ive always let the parents tend there fry but I have other fish in the tank and the last batch was eaten within a week. They spawn as quickly as convicts but there parental care is more along the lines of keyholes.
So if anyone has a safe and effective way to remove them please let me know.
Thank you

 

[bigspizz]

I just removed fry the other day. I used a piece of airline tubing, the kind that you hook up to air pumps, bubble wands, air-stones, ect... Just start a siphon into clean Tupperware container and suck the babies out. It is painless and takes just a few moments. You could even leave a manageable portion with the parents if they do not harm other fish protecting fry. Just pour the siphoned babies into the fry tank and you are done. I did it while they were wiggling still and had minimal losses...

 

[fishdance]

Siphoning them slowly before free swimming is the gentlest way but I use a 10mm tube. Preferably without a high water level drop. I think a turkey baster would be more damaging. Fish cant count so leaving a few fry behind will still keep parents satisfied.

If they were mouthbrooders, free swimming wrigglers will actually swim into a siphon tube with black tape around the end....

 

[SMS]

Thaks guys, that was easier than I thought. I have 100-150 of them