Electric Blue Acara Eggs

[Murray92]

Hi folks.

Any advice on what I should do with this?

Should I remove mum and the eggs or leave it?

Thanks

Michael

 

[AmyKieran]

Hi folks.

Any advice on what I should do with this?

Should I remove mum and the eggs or leave it?

Thanks

Michael

Leave eggs with them. Parents will care for eggs, then wrigglers and once they start free swimming, siphon they out

 

[Murray92]

Sorry I should have also said that this is in an community tank with other fish. Not wanting them all being eaten?

 

[Guyb93]

Move the eggs or get them there own tank , I’m assuming the eba are the biggest fish in the community and they won’t hold back once the fry are swimming , your going to stress the whole tank out and probably still lose all the fry

 

[AmyKieran]

You could move the eggs to their own tank. It needs a sponge filter and air bubbles next to the eggs (not on them, but near them)

Just don’t expose the eggs to water. Put an unused plastic container into the tank so it fills with water, put the eggs in underwater and transfer them to the tank already set up, entirely underwater.

Make sure to fill the new tank with the tank water from the tank the eggs were laid in

 

[Guyb93]

Iv moves eba fry countless time , by far the easiest method iv found is wait until they are wigglers , she will move them to a pre dug pit close by and will look like a vibrating mould just syphon out the wigglers , I often left her with 25% of them it helps her to learn how to look after them and delays the next brood

 

[Colin_T]

Leave the babies with the parents. If they get eaten, so be it. But baby cichlids need to be with their parents so they can learn cichlid behaviour and brood care. They also do better when left with their parents until they are old enough to swim off on their own.

If the babies get eaten in the community tank and you want to breed them and successfully rear the young, move the adults into their own tank and let them breed there.

 

[itiwhetu]

Leave them where they are unless you want to make money. The best thing is to leave Cichlid eggs with Mum and Dad

 

[Lynnzer]

I never had Electric Blue Acaris but funnily enough I saw some at a LFS today and they look great.
Too big for my community tanks though.
I had Kribs at first and they ended up with dozens of fry in a community tank. They looked after the fry like sheepdogs with a flock of lambs. No other fish was allowed near and the fry that strayed were soon sucked up and blown out into the flock.
Yeah, I'd say leave them and enjoy the experience.