What do you do when it's time for the fry to leave home?

[BadHairDay]

I have around 30 young Anomalochromis thomasi fry (I'd post a picture but they are so fast it's impossible - I may do a screen grab from a video later), now ten weeks old and I really need to move them on. At least one local fish shop has said they would take them, but what do you do? Would you expect a fish shop to offer anything in exchange? A couple of barrels of RO water perhaps?

 

[Magnum Man]

most do a store credit, for an agreed upon amount

 

[gwand]

My lfs gives me store credit starting at $1 per fish for TR Platy and Molly. I will be bringing them TR Apistogramma cacatuoides and a. thomasi in about 6-8 weeks fetching $3 per fish. Anomalochromis thomasi can get more than that if you hold on to them until they start to color up. F1s are worth more usually.

 

[BadHairDay]

Thanks both, it hadn't actually occurred to me to ask for money for them, but maybe I'll give it a try. Here they are at ten weeks.

 

[gwand]

Beautiful fish. What did you feed them in the first weeks of fry life? My fry are growing slowly. In your first post, you called the common name of a. thomasi as Rainbow cichlids. I read that the common name is African butterfly cichlid. Rainbow cichlids are Herotilapia multispinosa.

 

[BadHairDay]

Beautiful fish. What did you feed them in the first weeks of fry life? My fry are growing slowly. In your first post, you called the common name of a. thomasi as Rainbow cichlids. I read that the common name is African butterfly cichlid. Rainbow cichlids are Herotilapia multispinosa.

Thanks, and good grief, of course, you're absolutely correct, butterfly cichlid it is - I don't know where I got rainbow from. Initially I fed them on Ocean Nutrition "instant baby brine shrimp", which isn't anything of the sort, then Hikari first bites, and very quickly onto copeopods, which they hoovered up. Brine shrimp as soon as their mouths were big enough, and now they are eating as much Tetra Min mini and vegetable flakes as I can supply.