Blue acaras breeding again

[Tightdog1]

well when i got home from work yesterday i noticed my blue acaras had laid a few eggs on their normal rock so i was intrigued y they only laid a few, so i sat around and found out that they were in the process of laying eggs!

so i ran around the house looking for the digi cam and finally found it and took tons of poictures i should be able to post them on AC a little later.

[Mr.Jingles]

I recently rearanged my 50 gallon that my acaras are in, so I dont know how they will respond to the shift in territory. the male is still going after the female and they dont seem to notice a big change.

I just transferered about 20 babies or more into a 10 gallon. I use liquid fry and crushed flakes to feed them. its bare bottom so they dont dig into the gravel and kill themselves. Im hoping these will live so I can let the parents go for a few batches more and learn how to raise their fry better.

do your's raise their fry, or let their fry live, into fishyhood?

[hanif]

well if you want to raise successfull numbers your better of looking after them in a seperate tank but if you arenot bothered then you can leave them in the main tank and a few from each batch will survive and grow up, it depends on what you are wanting,tank looks greta with little babies swimming around with there parents, i recenly observed a baby yellow lab swimming around in the main tank non of the big fish take any notice and he swims around with out a care in the world

[Tightdog1]

whenn my blue acara fry are free swimming i tend to take out about half the fry (if i have tank space) and place them into a separate tank and let the parents raise about half the fry then when the fry seem to be about 1/8-1/4" i take them out too and raise separate from parents although i have recently noticed that i have a lone juvenille blue acara that comes out once in a while that is about 3/4" long. he just seemed to hide when i do water changes and took out the other fry and somehoe stayed alive.

sometimes i dont take out any fry and let them all die/get eaten because i have no extra tank room to house/raise them.