The Rainbow Cichlid Fry are free-swimming!!!

[Matt724]

Woke up this morning to a cloud of fry :D and both parents showed intense breeding coloration. However, the fry were exploring their new environment and in the span of 5 minutes, i saw at least 3 or 4 of them either get eaten or get sucked up by the filter. So, I sucked most of them all up with a syringe and airline tubing and put them in a breeding net with an airstone to keep the water highly oxygenated. Just went and bought some hikari first bites which i'll start feeding tomorrow.

Any other suggestions???? ^_^

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[mou86afa]

cong.
you can use the sponge filter instead of the sucking filter :D ..
if u have any Brine shrimp"artemia" it will be amazing and more grow rate
and good luck

[chrissfishes]

Congrats on the spawn. Wow that is a ton of fry. Great job. I would love some Rainbows again.

[Lisachromis]

Congrats. Looks like a good size spawn.