Want Fries With That?

[CichlidFan]

I was just sitting in my office chair looking over my three tanks in the "fish room" and something caught my eye in the corner of one of my tanks. At first I thought it was some kind of cloud of fish scum or something, but after focusing on the area, it turns out that the Cedar Point Gang, that's what I call my 6 brichardi, due to the fact, that they like to chase and harass any and all tank mates, anyway, a couple of them have found time to get busy setting up shop in the 75 gallon show tank.

The fry appear to be very young as they are only about 1/8th of an inch in length and are barely visible as baby fish. There seems to be about 50 of them at this point, but it's really hard to tell. The parents are hard to decide, due to the fact, that it appears several of the gang is on duty "fry sitting" at any one time.  I'm hoping to get at least half of them to double or triple their size by the end of the month, we'll see.

I'm attempting to get flake food down to them and I am using the smallest New Life pellets I have. I'm going to try the baby brine shimp hatchery I have and see if I can get some of them down to the fry.


CF

[Mzungu]

Re: Want Fries With That?

Awesome!  
Try a turkey baster for the BBS when they hatch, that way you can target feed a bit better.

[CichlidFan]

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Good Idea......

[eklikewhoa]

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Congrats!

Kiss all your other non-brichardi fish in the tank goodbye now.    If you really want to feed them you can cut off your filters for like 10-15mins and do as mzungu stated or get some NLS growth and throw it down there.

[alexrex20]

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75gal is enough room for tankmates to survive the brichardi wrath

[CichlidFan]

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There does seem to be some neutral ground in the tank (mostly near the top), but the other fish seem to have been "trained" to avoid the area near the fry.  There are only 4 other fish in there with them anyway, they seem to be more than willing to avoid the brichardi all together.  At feeding time, everyone seems to call a truce for a little while.

CF

[Hanson77]

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How many brichardi do you have all together not counting the fry?  You might want to set them up in the 20 gallon that you got from me until the fry get a little larger?  Just a thought.  I have heard some horror stories about the brichardi's parenting strategies....LOL.

[CichlidFan]

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There are 6 brichardi total in the 75 show. I bought the 75 show just for them ....

There are also two medium sized green severums and one med - large blue gill, and a couple of cats in there with them. The cats are small, about 3 inches.

CF

[eklikewhoa]

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75gal is enough room for tankmates to survive the brichardi wrath

I watched a colony of Brichardi corner 4-5" fronts, 4" calvus, 2 convicts, 4 ABN's and even kill off a few fish in a 75g.......I didn't post what I did for fun and it came from first hand experience. Have you had Brichardi's in a 75g with other fish alexrex20???

[CichlidFan]

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Well, the fry are still going strong. Their numbers seem to be steady, and they seem to be growing ever so slightly. I did shoot some baby brine shrimp towards them last night via a syringe and air line tubing that fishlady provided me with. I did see the baby shrimp in the water around them, and I suppose the fry had some of them before they swam off to parts unkown.

I'll keep you all posted on the progress of my brichardi fry from time to time.

CF

[Mzungu]

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Wow... 8O  Did the BBS hatch that quickly, or did you already have some set up?

[fishlady]

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mzungu, we have packets of bbs eggs that always hatch in our little portable hatchery in 18 to 24 hours....they are teeny tiny big time...just the right size for newborn fry......


fishlady....

not trying to steal cichlidfan's thread ....just thought i'd answer since he wasn't on here at the time....

[Zulaab]

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FishLady,

What is BBS eggs and how do I get some.. I need to feed my newly hatched Pink convicts in the next 48-72 hours, and I need to find out what I need to get.

Thanks for any help :)

[SCOTT]

Re: Want Fries With That?

BBS=Baby Brine Shrimp. You can pick up either just the eggs or the pre-mix egg and salt combination at Petsmart and other fish stores. Packets are typically 3.99 or so.

[Zulaab]

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Sweet I need to goto Petco tonight anyways to exchange a bad airpump.
I will see about getting some Baby Brine Shrimp then :)

Thank you Scott :)