I am cleaning out my fish tank and have emptied most of the water and now i see about 25 baby fish what i do?
by Aquaboy on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 | 9 Comments
I am cleaning my 10 gallon tank out and i have emtyed out 80% of the water and i have found around 25 baby fish, they are conflict chiclids. I have 4 grown chiclids in this tank what should i do if i want to keep the baby chiclids?? how do i care for the babies??
what do i feed the baby fish
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get a net and put them in a different fishbowl/tank and continue cleaning.
l believe you mean convicts and not conflicts.
You can leave them with their parents. A pair of convicts will do their best to protect their babies.
You can feed them;
very finely powdered fish flake food
freshly hatched brine shrimp.
That tank is way too small for one Convict Cichlid, let alone four. You should upgrade their tank immediately to a 50-55 gallon for these fish to thrive. Mating in that small a tank with other fish will definitely cause aggression and injured or even dead fish.
You should also never remove more than half your tank water. Why are you doing this? Only do 25% water changes a week, anymore will disrupt the bacteria levels in your tank.
My suggestion to you is, if you have another tank then move them there, but if you don’t, I suppose you can keep them in that tiny tank for now. Cichlids are great parents and most of the time won’t harm their fry but if you keep them in a tiny tank like that, they might.
Buy a 50-55 gallon tank if you can, and cycle it. Only when it has done cycling should you move your fish to it. You can raise the fry in that 10 gallon if you want, or you can move them into the larger tank. If you cannot house your Convicts properly, don’t even keep them.
Return the four parents and keep the babies if you like for a little while until they get too large for the tank and you’ll have to return them.
Feed the babies crunched up pellets and flakes and if you can, baby brine shrimp as a treat every four days or so.
Good luck.
put them in a different tank food them very fine fish food most pet stores sell that stuff. then continue cleaning the tank.
you may want to get a bigger tank for the chiclids it seems to small for that fish.
good luck and congrats.
18 years experience with fish
Convict Cichlids make excellent parents so they can remain with the fry. However you will want to remove the adults that are not the parents since they will eat the fry. I do want to let you know that a 10 gallon is not sufficent for all these fish. Convict cichlids need a minimum of 55 gallons. You can either keep them and upgrade your tank or donate them to a local pet store.
are you people nuts? why do americans always go one about 55 gallon tanks? a 55 gallon tank is HUGE! like 3 feet long, and not many people want a tank that size! A regular size tank would be 24″ x 12″ x 12″. You can keep a pair of Convicts in a tank this size, and when their babies get a little older you can sell them or give them to a good home.
eat them
leave with parents convicts need a 20 gallon lon tank and to keep the baby’s your are going to need a really big tank
Convict breed really easily. Don`t worry about them. fill up the tank again. the babies will feed along with their parents. If they die or get eaten don`t worry they will soon produce some more.