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If you can get a microworm culture that would give the fry some live food. Check with an aquarium club near your or see if you can order them on line.
Congrats on the fry! My aisto C's so far have eaten all their eggs or wigglers :( The only way I can raise any is to pull the spawn.
I think it is both instinct and learned.
I raised some rams from eggs as the male kept eating the wigglers. He would chase the female away from the eggs, but I know the female was parent raised.
A pair from the spawn I raised went on to parent raise in a well planted tank for someone...
The male will start to chase off other males from his soon to be mate. The female may also chase other males away from a spawning area. My rams use small flower pots or a flat rock for the most part, but one female would lay eggs in a small silk plant. The 2 leaves that were bent almost flat...
After about 4 weeks I start using decapsulated brine shrimp eggs (faster than hatching bbs and I can store about a weeks worth in the fridge)
After that I use NLS growth crumbles. They sink and the apisto seem to adapt well after getting the decaps off the bottom or as they fall.
I have...
As said above, blue rams and apistos (some anyway) would go well in the ph. I have apisto triple red Cacatoides (sp?) and blue rams in ph of 7, no ro water.
If you go for blue rams, try to find a local breeder (check an aquarium club or even go to an aurction) as many in your lfs will be...
pj...congrats on the Mom accepting fry that were not her own and on all 3 spawns :) That would be so interesting to watch Mom's swapping babies and caring for them.
ed s....I have heard of people given proven angel breeders slates of eggs and they have raised them.
Not sure if the age old...
Awesome looking pair. Are they in a tank alone or with other fish?
Mine won't parent raise for me, I've put them in with a few guppies as dithers and alone, but they eat the eggs every time. I have pulled the eggs and rised the spawn. From the last spawn there are 2 people who bought the...
It won't matter if they fall off the pot or not.....I have some wigglers that stay attached and others that stay on the tank bottom. I have apisto C's and mine so far eat the eggs so I've hatched a few spawns out myself.
Congrats! She sounds like a great Mom and it is time to give the pair a tank of their own. I've moved eggs, but never Mom and eggs.....if you can pick up the coconut shell with her in it she may do ok with the move if you use water from the current tank and a cycled sponge filter (so the fry...
I have bred mine in a 5g, but wouldn't recommend it a 10g works better. The pair do chase eachother at times and the 10g give them more hidding places and room to run away.
Exactly as Cathy said.....once they start to swim you will see a small cloud of them (led by Mom) and that is when you feed them. It should be about 7 days from the day the eggs were layed.
I raise blue rams and the free swimmers are too small for baby brine shrimp, so I use microworms for...
There are golden rams...like the german blue ones just all over golden with hints of red. Treat them just like the blue ones.....spawning etc is exactly the same.
Good luck with yours.
Belly sliders are often cused by bacteria on the tank bottom as well. I've noticed a few in my blue ram spawns and my apisto spawns. I've never had any problems with my angel fry, but they swim more in the top of the tank than the rams and apistos for the first few weeks.
When I do my w/c...
If at all possible find a local breeder...check out an aquarium club in your area and see if they know someone who breeds them.
I breed them, but don't ship and wouldn't ship to the US so no help to you.