Raising fry artificially

[Mugwump]

So what method to you folks use for pulling a spawn, and raising away from the parents?
Any chemicals??..Methylene blue? Malacite green? Acriflavin? Hydrogen peroxide?..other?
Aeration?...air stone? rigid tubing?..
What size vessel?..gallon jar? 2 1/2 gal?, 5 gallon?...other?
What's you first food for feeding?..bbs?, microworms? vinegar eels?....other?
How many water changes do you do?....how large?....source of water?
When do you transfer the fry to a larger tank?...how big a tank?..how do you do the transfer?
What other tricks can you share for better results??

[Jdmcfast]

I use gallon jars to hatch in. Mostly I use methylene blue but occasionally I use HP. I do 50% WC daily. And feed vinegar eels & bbs  36-48hrs after free swimming.

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[LizStreithorst]

The time or two I've done it I've dribbled straight meth blue over the eggs on the slate then moved it right into the 60 gallon tank the babies will grow up in.  I feed BBS and, as soon as they'll take it, crushed flake.  At first I don't need to change much water at first because of the volume of water in the tank.  Once they start really chowing down I change 50% daily.

[Jdmcfast]

How do you get them to eat the bbs in a 60 gallon without over feeding Liz?

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[LizStreithorst]

I just overfeed. 

[Mugwump]

What's your survival rate with fry??...Being a 60 gallon tank, how do you make sure all the fry get food. One of the reasons most folks use smaller tanks, is to keep the fry in close proximity to the food. The fry are moved after they all start to eat well, and the fragile ones have been weeded out.

[LizStreithorst]

I just feed a ton of BBS, same as we do with baby Discus.  It looks like they're swimming in a cloud of BBS.  Later, I vacuum the bottom of the dead BBS.  The only ones I loose are the ones that I accidently suck up during WC.  After a week or two I put a Magnum HOT on the tank and cover the intake with a sponge.  It's turned off when I feed and then back on a couple of hours later.

I'm not advocating my way by any means.  It's just the way I have done it and it worked for me.

[Mugwump]

I just feed a ton of BBS, same as we do with baby Discus.  It looks like they're swimming in a cloud of BBS.  Later, I vacuum the bottom of the dead BBS.  The only ones I loose are the ones that I accidently suck up during WC.  After a week or two I put a Magnum HOT on the tank and cover the intake with a sponge.  It's turned off when I feed and then back on a couple of hours later.

I'm not advocating my way by any means.  It's just the way I have done it and it worked for me.

Interesting.....thanks for the explaination.....the 60gal absorbs most of the HOT mag turbulence too....

[LizStreithorst]

The sponge on the intake slows it down, too.  I have to squeese that sponge every day.  It cruds up fast.