10th try at perant raised

[DiscusMad]

Well I thought to let the pair have a go at raising them cause I'm out of room the last lot were eaten but this is there 10th try and I have wigglers today fingers crossed that they will raise them instead of eating them LOL

[DiscusMad]

fingers crossed for the wigglers they go free swimming today some time hope mum and dad will not eat them!

[DiscusMad]

well saturday the fry are free swimmers but mum and dad will only let them go only a few centermeaters away from the spawning pole LOL

so good they haven't eatern them yet

[DiscusMad]

still have the babies with mum and dad but I have no idea when they are going to let there babies swim around

[Merrilyn]

The parents are doing everything right DM. They don't let them get far away for a long time. Are you feeding them now, you should have some live brine shrimp hatching (you can use frozen baby brine shrimp, but it's not quite as good).

Feed them several times a day by squirting the brine shrimp into the school. The dad will probably attack anything you put in the water, but that's cool, he won't hurt himself. After a few days they get used to you feeding their babies, and allow it to happen without too much fuss.

After a week of live baby brine feeding, you can add some finely crushed flake for the fry. Don't forget to feed mum and dad well during this time. We don't want them hungry, and decide to snack on their fry.

Good luck, you're doing great.

[DiscusMad]

I have been feeding them micro worms and mum and dad I have been feeding them a little bit less than normal

[Merrilyn]

Micro worms are a great first food, but after a week, they need something with a bit more substance. That's when the baby brine shrimp is good.

[DiscusMad]

they ate the babies when they started to free swim but now they are on there 11th try but they have free swimers now so fingers crossed for this lot LOL

[scott bowler]

well keep trying DM i let my fry with the parents ,hehe they did eat some of the fry and some have died but i have about 50 or so left and they seem to be going well

[eykw]

i had a patch hatched a week ago, left them in the tank with parents till yesterday (day7 free swimming). I really enjoy watching the parents swimming with the babies. I ve noted that the parents will eat the fry when i am slack with the water quality... not sure if this make sense. this time I fed them with live baby brine shrimp and has made all the difference!!! I used to get around 20 out of 200-300 (used to feed them rotifer and frozen baby brine shrimp, it's cheaper and easier). but this time i got more than 150 strong babies swimming around with live BBS. and everyone is doing fine. I've added a little albino BN to clean the bottom and keep the babies swimming (apparently the normal BN will eat the fry only albino is good with angel fry). this works really well. I'm now into hatching my own BBS... always learning n having so much fun!!!