Are they hard to Raise?

[Baccus]

So I was tidying up my rather over grown native tank and removing the cursed duckweed when I got the surprise of my life when I looked in the bucket I was dumping the duckweed into. Tiny little spotted blue eye fry :triumphant:. Since I have only had the parents a few weeks and have never kept them before I really don't know if the fry are hard to raise or not. The tank also has Blackmore River shrimp which have been breeding well with tiny shrimplets emerging and growing in the tank, so I am guessing the water has plenty of micro foods. Thankfully it looks like all the hydra have disappeared out of the tank too, after doing some tricky siphoning and adding some native snails to the tank. Here are a couple of the fry that I rescued back from the bucket of possible death. and a different one

[ineke]

Hi Bacuus ,

I don't even know what type of fish they are but good luck with them. Just as well you had a good look before you threw the water out

Cheers

Ineke:encouragement:

[Squiggle]

I'm pretty sure that as long as you have clean water & small enough live food, i.e. Microworms or Infusoria, you should have no problems :encouragement:

[MrShrimp]

I promise you will never forget the moment when you first discover those fry. It is an amazing feeling when I first saw my rainbow fish fry. Since that day, I supply rainbow to my LFS. Total magic to anyone who experience this.

[Squiggle]

+1 totally agree, nothing like it :encouragement:

[Baccus]

Thanks everyone, it certainly came as a shock, since the weeds where so over grown and the parents where always ducking into the thick of the plants, I had not seen them displaying. I am hoping the fry survive because then their small school can be made larger and once I have a good population I should be able to start trading them.

[northboy]

Hard boiled egg yoke and green water for a couple of weeks, then new hatched brine shrimp. Dead tired after tripping around with Wayne, if you want more detail ask tomorrow LOL