well, they live for a week until we added a little bit of water, as they water had evaporated. It was not a tank we had intented to breed them, so we are lucky it happened in the first place. we now put the parents in a bare tank, with a rock and a plant. She's full of eggs again, so we are waiting. The fry were free swimming. we were feeding them powder food, can't remember what kind. They lay eggs about every 2-3 weeks, so they are due. we are also going to try bolivian rams except they are harder to sex. we just purchased two so hopefully one's a male and one's a female...