Re: New picture up. / Questions about raising apisto fry

["Raymond Wong" <myapisto@hotmail.com>]

thanks for posting the picture Bob.. looks very nice.. with the red in the 
face.. different from the borelli I have..

I'd like to know everybody else's experience with raising up borelli fry... 
do you leave them with the parents or pull them out .. I've done both but 
I've found that they fry with the parents grow up much faster.. except 
there's less fry... i think it's because they swim to the other side of the 
partation where my cautoides eat them .. but i've seen the male munching on 
them also.. i was reading over the articles at thekrib.com and it says to 
remove the male... maybe i'll just remove the fry next time.. I believe I 
should have free swimming fry in around 2 weeks time.. my pair spawn's every 
4 weeks.. and I just received a borelli trio from someone else..

i'll try to raise some fry in a 2.5 or 5 gallon tank... hmm hope that 
works... but i'm too lazy to hatch brine shrimp.. as of now i feed all my 
fry decapsulated brine shrimp eggs squirted into some java moss where they 
can pick at them (i think that's what they do)

Acutally I did somethign very stupid today.. my kribs have some free 
swimming fry.. aroudn 30 ~ 40 of them.. I really wanted to raise a bunch 
this time so i removed the fry and placed them into my 5 gallon tank with 11 
~ 1 month old krib fry.. ahh but they ate my new krib fry. i only have 2 
left.. should have set up another tank but I was too lazy.. as a result i 
have 11 1 month krib fry that are really full!!


can someone who has experience or pulls out apisto fry regulary instead of 
letting their parents raise them please e-mail me and trade some thoughts or 
things i should be doing to ensure I can raise they fry successfully.. with 
minimal death...

my 2.5 and 5 gallon fry raising tanks all have a sponge filter, an airstone 
and a small bag of 'ammonia remover' initially I do 25%~ 50% water changes 
with water from the parents tank then after a week I do water changes with 
aged water.. anything wrong with my method? or any suggestions to improve 
it?

Hope you all don't mind the rather long e-mail..


Thank You
Raymond Wong

Please Visit My Aquarium Page : (adding more pix everyday) (Pictures of my 
fish,plants,tanks)
http://welcome.to/myapisto

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