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i have a 5cm female and a 7cm male and they have just paired off and laid their eggs in a clay pot.
i have a breeding tank but it is full of hony gourami fry.
will the babys survive in my community tank?
how do i care for the fry ?
will u give me some advice.

Will they survive in your community tank? Not sure as we don't know what else you have in there with them.

As for leaving them with the parents, yes they make great parents. The fry are easy to raise. Once they become free swimming, I have always just used finely crushed or powdered flakes with mine. I have kept 1-5 pairs of different species of kribs continuously breeding over the last 10 years.

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There is always a bigger fish...

they are in a 150L tank with a pair of gold gouramis' a school of black tetra's, a school of harlequin rasboras, some corys and a small bushynose cat

Well, sorry to say, I doubt you will get any fry to last long in that tank. More than half of your fish will probably get them before they become large enough to be safe.

Basically you have two opptions here;
First, I would say to move your pair to the breeding tank as soon as it is available. Take their breeding cave with them, and they will soon breed again. And there they will raise the fry very well. Again, just start them on powdered flakes once they become free swimming.
Secondly, you can move the breeding cave to a tank of its own, and use an air stone to create a good flow across the eggs till they hatch (don't let the air hit the eggs, just a current of water (this is one way of tumbling eggs). After they hatch it takes several days before they will be free swimming. Until they are free swimming they will not eat as they still have an egg yolk sack attached. This is not as good of a way to do it. As the fish will grow more quickly if raised with the parents.

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There is always a bigger fish...

OK, thanks for your help.
A friend of mine just gave me a 100L tank of his, i will set it up and move the honey gouramis into it, than put the kribs in the breeding tank.

OH, do you think it would be alright to put some blue rams in the comunity tank. or are they bad tankmates for them?

Yes, you can add some Rams with the Gourami, Black Tetra's, Harlequin Rasboras, Corydoras & BN.



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