Fry Eaters!

Spikor

Spikor

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Feb 15, 2005
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Los Angeles, CA
OK, i am having a problem. I have TOO MANY molly fry too quickly. i am trying to give some away, but it's becoming quite a laborious task (no pun intended). I need to know what fish i can add to the tank that will eat up the young fry. i know this sounds bad (at least to me it does). i currently have a 4-4.5" Gold gourami who picks on anything smaller than him that i add to the tank (except the FRY!!!!). I thought he'd do the trick but he as no interest in em. i need something that won't completely make the other fish miserable but will eat these guys. maybe a young convict or something? any thoughts?
 
I belive you are talking about your 20 long, It close to being maxed out as it is. I would hold off with adding any fish. I would just go ahead and give them to a local petstore. They may give you credit for your fish. But your tanks are pretty maxed as they are. I am more worried about your pleco, if you have the regular common pleco sold in stores, he will out grow that tank.
As it is, a 20 long is to small for any major cichlid, such as Angels. They prefer larger tanks, minium for me is a 55 for an angel.
 
This, my friends, is my specialty!

Get a Leopard Ctenopoma, AKA the Leopard Bushfish. He stalks these little buggers and snatches them up before they can even blink (fig of speech).
 
I've never heard of this fish. What are it's requirements?


I know about to pleco and his growing ways...i inherited him with another tank and am trying to find a good home for him. no LFS will take him because he isn't too large yet...he's average. worst case, when he grows another inch or two he'll be more attractive to LFS since it is something of a specialty to sell a larger one.
 
Wow, lots of fish there. Thought I would put my two cents in. When ever I have ever had problems with troublesome fry, I've gotten a female, sometimes male swordtail. You gotta make sure it's a swordtail if its a female, because it is easy to mix up female swordtails with platies, which in that case, platies rarely eat fry. But, I've watched swordtails hunt down, chase and eat fry before. Like I said this is just my opinion. Seems to be working for me :)

Hope it helps
Lakota
 
Last month I relocated about 20 molly fry into my 12 gallon so they'd be safe for a few weeks until they grew a little bigger. Within two nights my ADF's x 2 ate everyone except two survivors. I'm not suggesting adding an ADF just for that purpose but they did a very efficient job of eating fry.

I'd second the advice to drop them off at your local LFS...maybe you'll be able to get a little in-store credit.
 
will the Leopard Ctenopoma not eat the other fish too or at least be too aggressive for the tank.
 
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