I've got like 6 batches of fry floating around (mostly convicts) and don't have homes for any of them. What would you do with them? I try to feed them to my other fish but a lot of the time I can't catch them until they're big. I'd hate to waste my time catching them and clove oiling them to death. So I'm wondering.. What fish can I throw in with my breeding pairs that will hold their own and eat their fry? And if thats not a possibility is there any easy ways to catch fry-1" fish? And if I can catch the fry easily what are some species (not huge ones) that I could keep separately that would devour hundreds of fry?
Too many fry, what can I do with them?
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i use a plastic hose and suction them into a bucket and move them to their own tank.. but it would work just as well to move them to a tank where they are going to be chow..
Morledzep;2062890; said:
good idea, I usually don't even try to remove them until they're free swimming. Maybe thats my problem. If I siphon them out won't I kill a lot of them though?
i've never killed any by syphoning them out of the tank.. and i wait till they are free swimming, i never see eggs or wigglers, i think the red jewels keep em inside one of the caves until they are free swimming.
Striped raphael cats can survive the parents and gobble fry like there is no tommorrow, at least with mid sized cichlids like convicts. Of course might get the eggs too, armored as all get out.
As for a bottomless pit stomach, I'd recommend a midsized pike cichlids ... proteus, lucius, belly crawler. Or even bigger if you have the room. Note: I might be baised in my choice though.
As for a bottomless pit stomach, I'd recommend a midsized pike cichlids ... proteus, lucius, belly crawler. Or even bigger if you have the room. Note: I might be baised in my choice though.
ya my pike would punk a pair of convicts out and be all like bia gimme dem eggs and go cookie monster on em hah or get like eel's (tire track or fire) ummmm or.... i got a bumble bee jelly cat they get 8" and if u starve it, it will go and find them wrigglers and suck them up they only get 8 inch and i got mine at 2 now hes about 3.5 for like 5 bux or if ur in iowa ill take em all off ur hands hah
I just leave my fry be. I don't feed them anything special, don't seperate anything; nothing. I look for the true survivors.
Are you trying to breed convicts? I have 3 pairs of cons, that I keep with an O, an RD/Midas, and a JD. any survivors usually turn out to be fast growing, and have nice coloring (nice convict specimens, that end up at the LFS, and I ask no exchange ). if none survive, so be it. I'm only breeding cons that can run the gauntlet of my tank, and I'm not asking anything in exchange for the ones that I donate to the hobby.
the 7 cons, 1 JD, 1 O, and RD in my tank devour HUNDREDS of fry. all the time.
Are you trying to breed convicts? I have 3 pairs of cons, that I keep with an O, an RD/Midas, and a JD. any survivors usually turn out to be fast growing, and have nice coloring (nice convict specimens, that end up at the LFS, and I ask no exchange ). if none survive, so be it. I'm only breeding cons that can run the gauntlet of my tank, and I'm not asking anything in exchange for the ones that I donate to the hobby.
the 7 cons, 1 JD, 1 O, and RD in my tank devour HUNDREDS of fry. all the time.
I heard a pair of breeding Convicts will end up killing each other due to the fact that female doesn't want to breed and the male does. So far my pair has been taking turns protecting the frys....I want to get like a 5G and put the frys in it and raise them until they are grown maybe pick out one from the group that's nice looking and throw it in my tank with the big boys. 
I have a raphael cat and hes ate some babies but hes mostly just hid from a breeding pair of convicts. I will try him out though next time I have a spawn. Any pike species you can recommend for a 30gallon? If I'm keeping them I'd like to get a breeding pair too.
and I take them to the LFS, but they LFS's don't sell them fast enough and I don't want to crowd their tanks with them. I have 3 breeding pairs of convict all in a their own 30gallons but I don't want to break up the pairs. If I leave the fry every single last one of them will keep growing until they are the size of the parents so I have to pull them.
and I take them to the LFS, but they LFS's don't sell them fast enough and I don't want to crowd their tanks with them. I have 3 breeding pairs of convict all in a their own 30gallons but I don't want to break up the pairs. If I leave the fry every single last one of them will keep growing until they are the size of the parents so I have to pull them.