Electric Blue Acara
- Thread starter HarleyK
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Not sure if they still make it, but I had some luck with Rapashy gel food.
Don't feel bad I had the same experience. I was feeding micro worms. I would try live brine if had EBA fry again.
I agree with Jexnell.
I understand the big breeders often have great success with bare tanks and offering direct care for fry... But personally, I've done best when creating a natural'esque environment for them. I leave parents in decorated set ups and leave fry with them as long as possible. I watch them get it wrong for a few spawns and learn when the group starts dwindling, then I steal the next batch right before then. Also remember the parents will get better with each subsequent spawn.
If/When I do take the fry to raise them, I do so in a tank with lots of moss (and usually algae as it's in all my tanks :-/ ). And I feed with live baby brine shrimp. At least that's what I do when I have the most success. But I rarely pull fry anymore.
I understand the big breeders often have great success with bare tanks and offering direct care for fry... But personally, I've done best when creating a natural'esque environment for them. I leave parents in decorated set ups and leave fry with them as long as possible. I watch them get it wrong for a few spawns and learn when the group starts dwindling, then I steal the next batch right before then. Also remember the parents will get better with each subsequent spawn.
If/When I do take the fry to raise them, I do so in a tank with lots of moss (and usually algae as it's in all my tanks :-/ ). And I feed with live baby brine shrimp. At least that's what I do when I have the most success. But I rarely pull fry anymore.
I usually start one culture if Artemia, every 24 hours, in order to feed as many "small) meals throughout the day, as possible,
Also allow algae to grow on tank sides, and on rocks (put outside in the sun) just to grow algae for fry to graze for on in between feedings.
Once graduating to larger chunks, from the animate Aretemia, I mix dry food in to aid in forming a feeding response to inert chunks, and pipette it into the school of fry (also good grazing for aduls.
Also allow leaf litter and plant parts to offer detritus grazing, and the micro-animals that seem to appear, and help feed fry
Also allow algae to grow on tank sides, and on rocks (put outside in the sun) just to grow algae for fry to graze for on in between feedings.
Once graduating to larger chunks, from the animate Aretemia, I mix dry food in to aid in forming a feeding response to inert chunks, and pipette it into the school of fry (also good grazing for aduls.
Also allow leaf litter and plant parts to offer detritus grazing, and the micro-animals that seem to appear, and help feed fry
Thank you all for your recommendations and suggestions. It's a bare bottom because they're in my quarantine tank, which I'm using to hold them until I can figure out what to do with them. They messed up other fish in my 75 gal, therefore, I isolated them. Next thing you know they have fry....