I've been wondering what I should feed them, they've been around maybe 3 or more days and I had to take them out of the parents tank. What should I feed them if anything right now?? 
3 day old green severum fry
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Hello.
I breed green severums allot. I have discovered after too many batches to count that the best food for the fry are :
Freeze dried plankton. Crush it into a powder. The will grow like crazy on the stuff then every second day throw in some crushed flake as well. I use Ocean Nutritions Cichlid Omni Flake. (great stuff)
Since I started using the FD Plankton my fry have looked great the LFS I sell them to loves it when I show up with a batch of Juveniles for them.
As for removing them. I always remove the fry 3 days after free swimming and place then in their own tank.
I breed green severums allot. I have discovered after too many batches to count that the best food for the fry are :
Freeze dried plankton. Crush it into a powder. The will grow like crazy on the stuff then every second day throw in some crushed flake as well. I use Ocean Nutritions Cichlid Omni Flake. (great stuff)
Since I started using the FD Plankton my fry have looked great the LFS I sell them to loves it when I show up with a batch of Juveniles for them.
As for removing them. I always remove the fry 3 days after free swimming and place then in their own tank.
That's what I've usually done with the first two batches I had but with this type of "crab" forgot what they're called keep killing them as eggs, I was only able to save about 5 or 6 them from being crushed under the weight of the gravel. I've had a type of lava rock in there before we moved but I had to take everything out to see if I could get rid of the crabs and I still have them. So at the moment they're about 3 or 4 days old and haven't started swimming yet.
for future preference's:
why do you remove them after 3days of free swimming? The cichlids are great parents? I suspose tankmates come into the equation, But how do they do? I was considering removing my kribensis fry afte they became free swimming but didn't have a heat source. When I put them into a floating breeding tank, they seemed lost and bewilderd so I put them back with their parents.
What I want to know is why? and where do you move them to? i.e 5gal with light filtration or none?
as for fry getting crushed by gravel. I had the same problem and would most certainly lost 10+ fry that way, so I changed to a smaller pebble and so far things are looking better..only lost 3 since the gravel change I think to the algea eater's...though 1 got sucked up by the filter as I was doing a water change...:'( *cries*
why do you remove them after 3days of free swimming? The cichlids are great parents? I suspose tankmates come into the equation, But how do they do? I was considering removing my kribensis fry afte they became free swimming but didn't have a heat source. When I put them into a floating breeding tank, they seemed lost and bewilderd so I put them back with their parents.
What I want to know is why? and where do you move them to? i.e 5gal with light filtration or none?
as for fry getting crushed by gravel. I had the same problem and would most certainly lost 10+ fry that way, so I changed to a smaller pebble and so far things are looking better..only lost 3 since the gravel change I think to the algea eater's...though 1 got sucked up by the filter as I was doing a water change...:'( *cries*
My reason for taking them out of the tank was because of the gravel mostly this time. The last two I had a few years ago, I had in a breeding trap and I ended up loosing most of them. But mostly was because they were eating the fry as they would swim around them and bug them like crazy. The parents are the only two I can safely have in the tank without worrying about them killing another fish.
I gave up on heaters a while ago, kinda pointless to buy one when they're only going to crack it again, even with the suction cups on them.
I remove the fry after 3 days swimming because of previous mentioned tankmates. You can see them just hunting a picking off the fry at will. Sometimes the parents will start to eat the fry also.
When I remove them I syphon them out into a net then place them into a bucket. Then I transfer them to a bare 10 gallon with a sponge filter and a small (25 watt) heater. This is just to help keep the temp constant (obviously) but moreso at night time here. It can drop quite a bit in all the seasons especially spring and fall when the house heat is not on.
Since going to the sponge filter that runs off an old airpump I have I have found my survival rate has gone way up.
Before when using an AC150 with a blocked intake my survival rate was only 65% roughly. Now with the sponge filter it is around 90%.
One of the biggest things I have found with the fry is the water changes. When they are really small the tend not to eat as much of the food that I put in. Not wanting to starve them I do feed quite allot but that causes the water quaility to really drop. So I have to do a 25% water change every second day. When they get bigger they tend not to waste much of the food so the water changes goes to every 4 days. Then as they get bigger the regement goes to a normal 30% each week.
After that I transfer them into a 20 gallon long with two running ac150's. There they stay until I sell them to the LFS usually about 6 to 7 months old. By this time with the high protein diet (love that freeze dried plakton powder) they are about the size of a Canadian $2 coin or a US silver dollar. Actaul size 1.5 to 2 inches.
[EDIT] Just noticed post #800....Cool.
When I remove them I syphon them out into a net then place them into a bucket. Then I transfer them to a bare 10 gallon with a sponge filter and a small (25 watt) heater. This is just to help keep the temp constant (obviously) but moreso at night time here. It can drop quite a bit in all the seasons especially spring and fall when the house heat is not on.
Since going to the sponge filter that runs off an old airpump I have I have found my survival rate has gone way up.
Before when using an AC150 with a blocked intake my survival rate was only 65% roughly. Now with the sponge filter it is around 90%.
One of the biggest things I have found with the fry is the water changes. When they are really small the tend not to eat as much of the food that I put in. Not wanting to starve them I do feed quite allot but that causes the water quaility to really drop. So I have to do a 25% water change every second day. When they get bigger they tend not to waste much of the food so the water changes goes to every 4 days. Then as they get bigger the regement goes to a normal 30% each week.
After that I transfer them into a 20 gallon long with two running ac150's. There they stay until I sell them to the LFS usually about 6 to 7 months old. By this time with the high protein diet (love that freeze dried plakton powder) they are about the size of a Canadian $2 coin or a US silver dollar. Actaul size 1.5 to 2 inches.
[EDIT] Just noticed post #800....Cool.
Well I originally wasn't going to grab a heater and then gun it and see how the fry go. But Its at about 19'C or 66'F i think which is way to low for kribensis fry. (thats what I got told and Figured) so I might need to get one. I'm thinking about setting up my 5gal with some nice small tropicals anyway. See how things go
I've found so far with my fish that they are happy without a heater in there and the tanks stay cool enough during the summer and warm enough during the winter. Even my Severums seem to like swimming around more, don't have anything to break now too.