I have about 16 fish in a 75, 14 of which are Mbuna. I have had three batches of fry 10 hybrid red zebra / auratus fry, 11 demasoni fry (from two small females), and just now I stripped 17 yellow labs from their mom. My demasoni female is holding again she grew some so is probably holding about 10 (I'm going to strip her next week) and I have a good sized pearl mutt holding for the first time. She will probably have 10-15 fry. I am going to keep some of the yellow labs and all of the pearl mutts but am not sure what to do with the rest. Do most pet stores buy 1-2 juvies? If anyone lives in north jersey and wants some fry let me know and I'll give you some in a few weeks. Otherwise I may cull half of the hybrids as they are not attractive and just dump the rest into my 75. I'll have about 50 fish in there.
What do you all do with your fry?
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Yeah I try and give em away. If theres no takers i just use them as feeders.
In the case of mbunas i would just leave em in the tank and they should magically be gone.
In the case of mbunas i would just leave em in the tank and they should magically be gone.
i once had a whole army of frys outta no where when i bought some guppies for feeders so i just left them in there and eventually they all got eaten or fell threw the overflow box and ended up in my sump and bred some more... lol i caught them and threw em back in the tank to be eaten as snacks for my bichirs & turtles lol
If you can get the LFS to give you something for them great. Otherwise I would use them as feeders.
All of the LFS around me has a policy where they are not allowed to take any fish from someone other then their breeder. In my case, I might save a few, but the majority I use as feeders for my firemouth.