red jewel fry

[macro]

Hello, my jewel cichlids had babies. Its been now about 1 week since the eggs hatched and now there are like only 5 fry left. The parents did a very good job protecting them but I fear they arent eating. The LFS did not have or couldnt tell if they had baby brine shrimp, instead they just had brine shrimp so they recommended flake food and that I should just crumble it to a fine powder then serve it. I did that but I dont know if they are eating. Does anyone know if this method of feading works for jewel frys ?

[catsyloo]

Hi there. I've successfully breed 1st badge of jewel fish. There about 100 of them. Now, I'm into the 2nd badge. I did what ur doing by crumbling the food flakes into powder. Sometimes, I feed them with frozen blood worms. Normally, the parents will munch the food and feed their babies. The parents will keep their babies near them. If the babies swim further,sometimes either the male or female will sort of suck them in the mouth and will spit them out near where they want the babies to be at.

If the parents are 1st timer, they tend to have the babies as food. It might take them a few badges before they learn that those are their babies, not food. This advice may come in too late but good luck.

[BlueDempsey]

Their fry are usually quite easily to rear. I usually have lots of plants for their cover and keep the parents & other fish separated.