DrunkenAlcoholic
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I bought some Apistogramma's just before x-mas, 3 female and 2 male Cacatuoides quad red(Super reds) and a pair of agassizii fire gold's. About a week after I bought them I needed to go back to work, I work 4 weeks away at a time. I didn't have to time to setup up their "forever" home so I threw them into a custom 4ft tank which is 4ftLx1.5ftDx1ftH. I just got home the other day and noticed every single one of females including the agassizii has fry, the agassizii doesn't seem to have as many as the other 3 cacatuoides. The problem is I would like to do a water change but the fry are small and due to the vast amount in there I am concerned about sucking them up when draining the tank and then filling the tank with fresh water if I don't get the temperature just right. Looking for any suggestions to help keep the survival rate up with the fry, I have other tanks but I think the fry are too small to move. By the way I had no intentions of these breeding so soon and the condition of the tank goes against everything that the internet says about breeding apistogramms, Ph is around 6.8 TDS 300 ppm I have 2 x 500 lph powerheads which combined turn over 1000 lph in a 160-170 liter tank, my wife is not the best at water changes and doesn't take much notice of what is actually happening in the tank, she only knows to drain 30% once a week, no gravel vacc ect.. So in my eyes these conditions are not ideal for apistogramma so you could imagine my surprise when all 4 females had fry in the same tank.
Any suggestions moving forward would be great
Any suggestions moving forward would be great