scrabble Posted January 21, 2010 Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 I have a 300L tank with 4 convicts, 3 GAE's, 6 Demonsoni and clown loach. Two convicts have paired up and now theres little babies :lol: .. As I have never had babies before, a few questions? 1. Do I need to move them out of this tank? If so how, they are teeny tiny.. 2. Will my other fish eat them? 3. What do I feed them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REEVESTA Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 I have a 300L tank with 4 convicts, 3 GAE's, 6 Demonsoni and clown loach. Two convicts have paired up and now theres little babies :lol: .. As I have never had babies before, a few questions? 1. Do I need to move them out of this tank? If so how, they are teeny tiny.. 2. Will my other fish eat them? 3. What do I feed them? i have herd of people using a siphion to get small fry out. i feed mine finely crushd flake if that helps. then when they got bigger i swapd the flake for hikari cichlid gold and 100eds survied Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
si_sphinx Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 You can leave them in there. the parents usually won't eat them. convicts are great parents and will take good care of them. i just feed mine flakes and the parents would take the flakes and drop it by the babies so they could eat You may have to keep an eye on their aggression towards the other fish tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrabble Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Thanks for the advice. I have given up trying to catch them, they are really faaast. The only thingI noticed is that the parents are really chasing the other fish, I will watch and see if the other fish and make sure they are not too stressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babyruby Posted February 16, 2010 Report Share Posted February 16, 2010 Maybe an option to move the other fish until fry are big enough to catch and move them and parents to a seperate tank and the other fish may try and eat the babies, I have breeders of convicts and had to do the same in 4ft tank so 28 fish only had half of the tank while the pair of convicts and babies had the rest of the tank, I had to move them as the fish were very stressed and short spaced... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wok Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 I just left the fry with the convict parents, and took out the other fish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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