Fry feeding help needed.

[electromen]

Hey everyone.
I put up a post awhile ago stated that my Uro's were breeding... well it was successful and now the fry have been free swimming for a week and a half. I was told some extremely bad advice to remove the fry when they became free swimming, I did so with a baster. But after talking with an avid Uro breeder and he said to put them back as they are extremely good parents. So I did..

Which brings me to where I'm at right now.
I've been feeding BBS several times a day. The fry and parents are in a 46g tall tank, so I have to use the baster to shoot the BBS down to the fry. It seems like the dad associates the baster with when I took his kids away from him because whenever I stick it in the tank he relentlessly attacks it. While he's attacking the baster, the mom hurries the fry under this rock ledge....

I'm not even sure if they are eating because they fear the almighty baster. Does anyone have any advice in which I can feed them without them becoming extremely afraid?

By the way, I know its the baster that they fear because I can still hand feed the parents and they don't care.

Thanks for reading my short story.. lol

[electromen]

Anyone? He's biting the baster so hard now it looks like its hurting him.

[Mgamer20o0]

use some silicon tubing. funnel it in and blow so it goes in the tank. maybe add some java moss so the fry can eat the microorganism in the plants.

[mee-mee]

When our yellow fry was small than it is now, the local lfs told us to feed it frozen brine shrimp. Hubby would stand at one end and I on a chair, he would coax the adults to his side and I would put the frozen shrimp under a rock it was dwelling in and it would get the shrimp. And now it is over an inch long and it eats crumbled flakes with all the other adults.
Yeah, use a see=thru tube and blow the BBS down to where the fry are. Then papa won't be aggresive toward your baster.
Good Luck...:dance2:

[Jmerk]

Although I haven't had the chance to raise fry, my choise of food would be getting a brine shrimp hatchery. Most fish stores (or pet stores) sell canisters of brine shrimp eggs. Fry like these a lot and the parents won't mind.


Jmerk:dog: :dog:

[jenny79]

Most Likely if the Parents r Raising the fry they r making sure they r eatting, all breeders i have had that raised their fry always made sure they would see the young eat, the parents probably know the baster has that food in it and maby mom waits to feed them, i know my moms always chewed the food and spit it back out at the fry and another thing parents do is sit on the rocks and vibrate their bodies to throw food around for the babies, but if your really worried i wood go with tubing as well, put some in the tube put the tube where you want it and blow into the tube to through the food down......good luck Jen