Hemichromis elongatus Fry

Free-swimming fry. The parents are guarding them well.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Hemichromis
• elongatus
• breeding
• african
• cichlid
• fry
• babies

[jamesgatward1985]

How big are the parents? remind me of my Frempongi Pair with 200+ inch long babies

[Tropheus8]

@jamesgatward1985 The parents are about four inches long in this video. The male is now closer to six inches. Unfortunately, he killed the female fighting over protecting the eggs.

I wanted to just keep one breeding pair, but it seems the males only tolerate the females that are ready to spawn.

[MrDirect23]

hey what did you feed them once they hatched ? I have a pair that just laid eggs today and alone in a tank by them selfs , im not sure when to take the fry out will they be ok with the parents for a couple of weeks or will they turn on them?

[Tropheus8]

I feed the fry baby brine shrimp and cyclops until they are big enough to handle larger meals.

The parents do a good job defending the fry. No other fish will be tolerated in the tank.

If the adults spawn again you will need to remove any older fry.

[MrDirect23]

ya i actually got the batch out and now just in the passed 2 weeks they spawned again now i have about 500 plus fry swimming around i might have to contact a fish store about selling them or maybe when they get bigger craigslist .. thanks for the info.

[lostnite66]

Awesome 5 spots, lots of fry too