Re: feeding fry (L. thayeri)

[Mike & Diane Wise <apistowise@bewellnet.com>]

Tsuh Yang,

This may sound cruel, but I'd suggest that you
only keep 25 or so fry in the 10
right now. Give away or feed the others. A 10 is
just too small for 50 fry. In
about a month I'd suggest you cull back to 10 or
so of mixed sizes to assure
getting both sexes. For feeding I suggest mixing
live or frozen baby brine shrimp
with powdered flakes & crushed pellets. Feed often
and change water daily.

Mike Wise

Piabinha@aol.com wrote:

> alright folks, my stupid pair of Laetacara thayeri went through 3 batches of
> eggs/fry, giving up on them 3 times, eating all the fry or eggs, since they
> are living in a 55gallon tank full of predatory tetras and catfish.  so this
> morning, as i looked over a cloud of detritus and fry from their 4th batch, i
> put in my syphon and sucked out all (or most) of the fry into an empty 10
> gallon tank.  the mother was traumatized, checking out the syphon and not
> being afraid of my hand, i almost took her out of there manually (i thought
> she might want to be with them, but i think 10 gallons is too small for her).
>
> the fry (at least 50 or so) are now in this barebottom 10 gallon tank, with a
> heater.  i vacuumed a lot of the detritus into it.  there's some floating
> dead leaves of Vallisneria and pieces of java fern.  no lighting.
>
> what do i feed the damn pests?  i never had to feed fry before, they always
> find their own food in the tank.  i sucked lots of detritus into it to
> provide them with infusoria or whatever it is they pick in there.  i also
> sprinkled some flake food.
>
> should i light this tank (to encourage algae growth)?  what else can i feed
> them?  unfortunately i don't do live foods (lack of space and time).  please
> advise.
>
> tsuh yang chen, nyc, USA
>
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