Fry care?

[Hustle US]

I had to holding mothers and I have stripped 40 or so fry, done research on how to care for the fry but wondering if anyone would chime in on tips or tricks to raising healthy fry. My tank setup for them is a ten gallon tank with a sponge filter, ten gallon air pump. The heater is set to around 75 I have no substrate. The water it the tank was pulled from mother tank and so was the sponge filter as to jump start the bio.

 

[Razzo]

Congrats, what species?

 

[Razzo]

I wrote an article for another site last year for altolamproloogus fry which can be very difficult. I suspect your fry may not be as difficult; however, you may still find some good tips that worked for me.... http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/altolamp_fry_pt1.php

 

[Hustle US]

The one pictured (not sure what she is) is one of the mothers the other is a red zebra I received them and they were holding already so I'm not to sure what they are apart from the mothers.

 

[Tifftastic]

You've got some hardy species there. I would suggest that the best thing for survival and development is to have plenty of cover, keep your nitrates low (lots of little water changes at this stage), offer a variety of foods and make sure you have a plan for moving them when they become aggressive with each other. Additionally, you will have plenty of fry to come with Afros and it might be a good idea to find a store that may take them or a friend, or you will become quickly overstocked. The fry may just be hybrid mutts, which will be harder to find homes for in the long run.

 

[wesleydnunder]

^
agree...

Mark

 

[tanker]

Nice looking fry, but from what I think they are probably hybrids. Cichlids from Africa cross breed al the time, so most store bought ones are mixed. I think most cichlid keepers either keep one species of African Cichlid, or keep all male tanks.
Growing fish fry's is all the same--Lots of good food, and lots of WC, and I think most African Cichlids are vegetarians.

 

[Tifftastic]

A lot of mbuna are actually omnivores, as well as herbivores The zebras I know for sure are omnivores, and will benefit from some zooplankton (daphnia, artermia, etc) in their diet especially while growing.

 

[tommy d]

I've always fed fry with newly hatched brine shrimp. I would buy the brine shrimp eggs and hatch them in a small tank. An extremely fine net is used to catch them.