Unwanted Fry

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divemaster99

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My Cutteri cichlids spawned in the middle of this April. As of now there are 4 very healthy large fry living with the parents and other fish in my 75 gallon that hopefully I can find someone local to buy. However for several different reasons that would take a long time to explain I have about 25-30 very small and what I think are stunted (they aren't growing at all) fry in a 20 tall. I'm feeding the unhealthy fry flake twice per day and have the heat on 82 but they just won't grow at all! The healthy ones in my 75 are close to 1" now but the biggest unhealthy one is only 1/3". I can't find one person around me to even take any of them and I'll soon be in need of the tank they're in so I'm not sure what to do. I'm pretty close at this point to using the stunted ones as feeders for my striped raph and asian bumblebee cats and anything else that wants to eat them since I don't think they're going to grow anyway. Just looking for your guys opinion on what I should do.
 
I put some Firemouth fry in my main tank as feeders the others where left in the 20. much to my surprise 1 survived and in a few weeks it was double the size of the ones in the 20. maybe they aren't unhealthy maybe it is tank size? or did you notice the size difference before moving them?
 
I put some Firemouth fry in my main tank as feeders the others where left in the 20. much to my surprise 1 survived and in a few weeks it was double the size of the ones in the 20. maybe they aren't unhealthy maybe it is tank size? or did you notice the size difference before moving them?

No there was definitely a size difference before the move. This was there first spawn so maybe that's why...
 
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