Found African Fry

we thought about a divider also but we're thinking more about after the fry become swimmers and getting them out of the main tank verses if we can safely get her into the smaller tank then when they become swimmers we could just get her out and put back in the main tank and let the fry grow out. it was really hard to catch the couple fry we have now cause they can hide in the gravel. i guess we're at the point where it's "6 of one and half dozen of the other" lol...

 

we'll come up with something, we have a little time. if i'm not mistaken, she'll hold them for 2 weeks. what gets me is how when she came out of the cave that none of the others bothered her one bit, we thought for sure she would get harassed.

 

i guess you can say that we're just a little excited about it also when we set up the tank it was suppose to be an all male, but as you can see it didn't happen that way.

 

the fry that's hiding is doing fine, i think it knows that it's in a safe place. the other in the diy q-tip fry box is doing fine also. now the one that's holding, well some of the others started picking on her and she had spit out at least 6 eggs that i know of. they we're really starting to stress her out so with some quick thinking i turned out the lights and covered the tank with a small planket and within a few minutes things calmed down in there.

 

thanks. latter today when i do the wc i'm going try to see if i can't get her out, going to see if i can get her into a large measuring cup rather than try to net her. we don't have anything to make a divider and won't be able to get on til middle of next week. i don't think it'll be a good idea keeping them in the dark til the fry is ready to be released.

 

when i did the wc on the tank i tried to see if i could get her out, she wouldn't have anything with it. i did notice that she had released somemore eggs. she is still holding some.

 

well this evening my wife noticed that a couple of this fish trying to get into the little frys hiding spot...it took us about 15min to get the little guy out and he's now in the 5gal with the other one. also we're able to get the female out that's holding and put her in the 10gal.

 

thanks dawn. the 2 young fry are doing good. mom-to-be is adjusting ok in the 10g.

 

here are a couple pic of the fry that were found/rescued from the other fish. the 2nd pic is the one that had got out of the fry box and we thought had become a snack.

 

thanks dawn & angel. they are really cute, we can't wait until the one that's holding to release little swimmers which should be in a week or so. now that we know that there's atleast 2 females in the tank we would like to mate them 1 or 2 more times with differest males to see what comes from them. i'm going to use this as leverage to my wife to get another (bigger) tank, if she wants more fry, need more tank room, don't want more fry, then need another tank to seperate male and females. either way i think we'll be getting another tank here sometime.

 

yup yup ! ! just have to wait and see how it plays out.