Kribs had babies....now what?

[Converseballer]

my pair of kribs had babies this morning...really cool to watch but now what? i crushed my flakes and put them in? is there anything else i should do? i heard that the parents eat there first batch or two which is fine but when they decide not to i wouild like to know what to do. thnx

[jiggerpolebill]

are they free-swimming? are the parents leading them around the tank yet? i really dont think there's that much you can do. the parents usually do a pretty good job themselves(once they get the hang of it). ive done nothing more than throw in some crushed flake and frozen daphnia for my fry. i could be wrong because thats just always been my approach: do nothing. they have gotten the parenting thing down pretty good, with the exception of my their last brood.

they wound up eating them for what seemed like no reason after they had been 'presenting' them to the tank for about a week and a half. it was kind of odd, because they were taking really good care of them, and about a week ago, i saw 'mom' tracking down one that had gone astray. when she caught up with it, she took it in her mouth and then looked as if she were chewing! she then went back down into her stump. i thought maybe that she had decided to keep them all in the stump, because she didnt come out of it for a few days and the male was being very aggressive with his territory. when she finally emerged, she was alone and ive never seen the babies since. they allow the other fish to swim around the stump now, so i know there arent any eggs or fry inside it.

[Converseballer]

yeah they are free swimming and the parents are showing them around the tank. but there seems to be less and less everytime i look. there is still a lot but not as many so i'm suspecting they are eating them.

[Roland]

What kind of filter do you have? Could you fry be getting sucked into it? I lost a load of krib fry that my eheim external sucked into it.

Although I dont doubt it could happen, Ive never lost fry to the parents. I would imagine they would only do that if they were stressed and felt they couldnt look after them.

I fed my fry initially on liquid fry food, available from your lfs. Then onto powdered food, then reg flake and chopped blood worm.

But how awesome is it seeing the parents protect the fry so tenatiously?

Andy

[jiggerpolebill]

yeah last time i cleaned out my ehiem, there were about 7 krib fry in there. had no idea how long they had been i there. forgot to mention that.

[O-man21]

The fry dig into the rock so it could just be then in the rocks so you don't notice them, then they come out when you don't look.
I don't do anything for the babies..their on their own. I have 2 surviviors right now from a batch of 7. They're about as long as the word "kribs"

[Converseballer]

There are about 15 left and they are still very tiny they are about [ ] small. actually a tiny bit bigger but i cant get that perfect. i crush up flakes and where ever they r is where i put it so hopefully i will have some survivors.

[Converseballer]

oops for some reason these[] got squashed smaller then what i had but they are small...sorry bout that!!

[kevinn2003]

i always take my fry and put them in my empty 20g, Every batch of fry ive had (cons and kribs) i always take them from the parents and usually all mine survive, i just hatch them some brine shrimp and crush up flakes. i have a topfin biobag filter and fry always get sucked up into it, but i look in the back and there ussualy still alive and swimming :D

[scubadave]

any Kribs left? Are you trying to thin them out?

[~*LuvMyKribs*~]

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