electricyellowz Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Hi everyone. I recently bought a colony of black calvus (1m 3f). They are being housed in a tank that is equivilent to a standard 3ft water wise. Two of the girls have bred in tile caves so I can see the fry and they are easily taken out. Now my question is should I leave the fry in there and will the parents take care of them or what should I do? Also what should I feed the fry? Is there any other things I need to do? Any advice would be great! Thanks, Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcsx Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 nah the calvus are predetors take the fry out for sure feed the fry anythin small baby brine, cyclops, crushed flake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosco Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 From what I have experiencea and been told you need to move them but into systems that are well established. or even move them into a Matthew style fry saver for best results). If you put them into a seperate tank the I would suggest that you do water changes on the tank they are in with old water (ie water from the tank they came from) under they are around 1-2 cm as they are sensitive to change. The only thing to reallyfeed them on is live BBS until they are 1-2cm and then introduce a good quality flake or use cyclopeze (it is freeze dried BBS I believe) HTH cheers rosco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricyellowz Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 Thanks for the replies! I am looking into one of Matthews fry savers as I type. Would they eat frozen bbs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 My Gold comps fry eat baby brine shrimp. I feed them bbs for a month then they each crushed flake. I also fed them the biotec ultra plus fry food. They seem to go well on that. I've read that the fry start to hammer each other if they are kept in the confines of a fry net. I've seen Matthews larger fry savers (though haven't bought any yet) and they might be the go when the fry get a little bigger. Good luck. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
electricyellowz Posted August 20, 2007 Author Share Posted August 20, 2007 Thanks bruce, What type of flake do you use? ( do you buy it crushed or do you do it yourself) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brucem Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 I just use HBH cichlid flakes. I feed this to my fry also and when the container is getting low, post of the remaining particles are really small. So I save these up for the small fry. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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