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Awesome pics! Congrats and good luck. I never had alot of luck with the rams. I am not sure why, but I did not have live plants and I heard that is something they really like? Please share more pics.

I have fry!!!!!!
The eggs were gaurded for hours and the fanned and placed in different spots while they hatched yesterday evening. They actually haven't used the fry holes they dug. At first I was confused and could not find where the fry had gone. Then I saw the male hovering a centimeter from the surface of the water in the back. The Parents had transfered the fry to a ledge near the water line that is formed by the 3D background.

Here is the pic of the eggs about to hatch, if you look closely you can see there eyes:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k82/budzilla_2006/DSCN0768.jpg

Here is where the ledge is:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k82/budzilla_2006/DSCN0824copy.jpg

Here are the fry:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k82/budzilla_2006/DSCN0828.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k82/budzilla_2006/DSCN0830.jpg

-Vincent

Bud, this is really cool. They will probably be parading them all over the tank. What will be cool to watch is when they start to leave that ledge like little birds learning to fly lol. I will keep looking into this thread. Keep us posted. And keep with the pics they are also really cool.

p.s- Do you have BBS for them? And what are your plans when they get older?

I don't have any BBS but I have some liquid fry formula.
I will do the same with these as I will with the Pulcher.

-Vincent

I dont reccomend the liquid fry stuff. It is nasty and makes your tank smell terrible. I reccomend Hikari first bites. They are a great source of nutrition. I used that with my platy fry and it showed great results. Along with ACF tads

I'll try that if I can find it at the LFS. I know it is kind of messy but the pulcher fry and guppy fry like it.

-Vincent

Hi Budzilla,
Great...
As far as feeding them is concerned, u can try what I fed my blue gourami fry. This was recommended by my friend LFS owner, who himself has good experience of breeding different fish and raising the fry.
Take an egg, get it hard boiled, remove the white and crush the hardened yolk. Leave it in a dry place for a few hours and when dried, grind it into fine powder. The fry just love it.

Congrats on the fry Bud! I know that must be very exciting for you.

Thats the main ingredient in the fry formula so I guess I am OK there.

-Vincent

More pics!!! Have they flown the coop yet? Lol or in other words, fly from the ledge?

not yet, they are only free swimming after about 5 days.

-Vincent

sorry for no updates.. my internet was out for 5 days
but the ram fry only lasted a day before they went missing, I think the rams ate them again.

-Vincent

Sorry to hear about the loss of your fry Vincent. You may want to try and seperate them from the parents the next time.

Jim

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

Well I have eggs again, third times a charm

-Vincent