Plants/Scavengers for fry tank?

[tmwtyh]

My Molly is Pregnant so I'm trying to set up a 10 Gallon Fry tank.
I was thinking of putting some scavengers in the fry tank to eat up anything that drops is there something that you know that doesn't eat fry? I am currently leaning towards the kuhli loach, but I'm not sure if it's a fry eater. How about plants, any suggestions?

 

[StreetCypher]

java moss is good for fry.
I remember Daveedka saying something about them eating organisms off of it. And its good for hiding in.

 

[Harlock]

Plants honestly depend on the amount of light you have. For a fry tank, I would assume a low-light, low-tech setup, so java moss, java fern, anubias nana... those are all feasible as plants. As for scavengers, you could do some pygmy cories in a 10 gallon. They stay small. I don't know for sure if they do or do not eat fry. Given their small size and small mouhts to begin with, I think they would find it difficult to eat all but the smallest or still born fry. I was amazed that my ghost shrimp would catch and eat fry, but man, did they ever.

 

[jonathan03]

I would only keep plants in your fry tank. It seems that most fish are cannibals to the degree of what fits in their mouth. Most fish will eat blood worms or brine shrimp and I don't think that they will take them time to ask if whats in front of them is fry or a brine shrimp ;-)

Besides the other fish in your tank eating the fry, you have to worry about diease. The fry are very prone to disease.

Just keep your fry by themselves for a bit. A fry tank isn't that exciting of a tank to look at most of the time. They are usually just a very basic setup. You can compare a fry tank to a quarintine tank.

It is interesting to watch the fish grow though.