Baby Bristle Nose

[djvant]

I have a fully grown brown female bristle nose (about 6 years old) and a small golden male about half her size. They have had babies before which i found by chance when i set up my new tank, they were about 1 cm long that time (i still have all 86 of them in their own tank, brown with gold spots around 3cm long now). They have just had more and he's still in the cave with them, they are around 0.5cm, only hatched in the last week. I'm a bit worried as hes not that big himself and don't want him to starve to death wile looking after the babies, so want to move the babies to the other tank with the 3cm babies. Will it be fine to take the babies off their daddy now or are they to small?, will the new babies be alright with the 3cm ones?

[Ira]

I have a fully grown brown female bristle nose (about 6 years old) and a small golden male about half her size. They have had babies before which i found by chance when i set up my new tank, they were about 1 cm long that time (i still have all 86 of them in their own tank, brown with gold spots around 3cm long now). They have just had more and he's still in the cave with them, they are around 0.5cm, only hatched in the last week. I'm a bit worried as hes not that big himself and don't want him to starve to death wile looking after the babies, so want to move the babies to the other tank with the 3cm babies. Will it be fine to take the babies off their daddy now or are they to small?, will the new babies be alright with the 3cm ones?

The babies have no need of their father from the instant they hatch. He won't starve to death while looking after them, all he does is fan the eggs with water a bit and maybe chase off other fish. It would take him a month or two to starve to death anyway.