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Is it okay not to feed babies anything special? They seem to be eating something I can't see off of the gravel. I make sure to put sinking pellets/algae hoping they'll eat the small fragments that come off when it soaks up water.

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If they are surviving OK I would not worry at all as they get a little bigger you could start adding a little more food.

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Fry tend to eat the microscopic animals that live in tanks. You may not be able to see them, but established tanks usually have a pretty well-established community of microfauna that make good first food for your fish.

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From my experience, most african cichlids will also eat ground up flakes, so if you are worried, it will probably eventually eat flakes and be just fine.

I put the flakes in a little cup and mix it with a spoon and then put it in the fry tank.

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What kind of fish fry do you have? I have found some egg layers like my whiteclouds do quite well off powdered and liquid fry food.

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Saint Paul, Minnesota USA 20g Freshwater Started June 10th 2008
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Its been 10 days since your first posting they should have grown a lot by now. Have you changed their diet at all to keep up with their growth? If so what have you done?

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I break up algae wafers which break up even more when wet so they can munch on that. If they're hungry enough I'm sure that'll sustain 'em. I put extra tropical crisps in which are for the parents but the extras sit around when they're done eating. And I always make sure there's a bottom feader tablet, or atleast a piece of, sitting on the bottom. Once in a while I smash up some flakes with my fingers and sprinkle that in by the filter outlet so it gets forced down.

They have top fins now and look a lot more like their parents rather than tadpoles.

The parents seem to be helping by chewing up food and spitting it at the clusters of babies. These are the best fish!

Saint Paul, Minnesota USA 20g Freshwater Started June 10th 2008
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Looks like what ever you and the parents are doing is correct dont change a thing.

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