Possible fry action tonight, would like help quickly

[foxgirl158]

Never mind! I got my answer I managed to rescue 10 of Jazz's babies, although one or two might have died and one is disformed, but he's still alive so I have hope <3 these ones aren't premature, thank goodness, and they have the colors of their mama!

 

[Colin_T]

If you have floating plants like Water Sprite (Ceratopteirs thalictroides/ cornuta) in the tank, the babies can hide among the plants and you can scoop them out of the plants with a 2 litre icecream bucket.

Try and find a microworm culture and get some brineshrimp eggs to hatch. You can feed microworms and newly hatched brineshrimp (called nauplii) to the baby fish (called fry).

The following link has information about culturing food for baby fish.

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