flowerhorn fry help!!!!

[MasterHuang]

i have 2, one male and one female flowerhorn in a 80g tank, my female flowerhorn seen to laid eggs all the time (atleast onece amonth), but everytime the flowerhorns just ate the eggs before the eggs hatch, this time her eggs hatch, i can see hundreds tiny fry in my tank. since flowerhorns are a very aggresive fish, my questions are: will the parents eat their babies?  should i move the parents or the babies to a different tank?  what should i feed the babies with?  Thank you for any help and advice.

[edkrueger]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

I don't have any specific experience with flowerhorns. I have a texas cichlid and a covict parrot. The pair had babies. The Texas, a very aggressive fish, did not eat the babies. When the babies got to about an inch they started to attack the parents, but the parents still didn't retaliate. I had to move the young at this stage becausethe parents were badly injured. For food i feed all of my fry decapsulated brine shrimp eggs from brine shrimp direct.

When they get bigger, want to trade some hybrid fry? I'd love to cross a one of mine with a flowerhorn.

[edkrueger]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

I think your experience will be similar because the Flowerhorn is mostly of the Cichlosoma genus and the texas is of Cichlisoma.

[Zulaab]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

I am thinking you will see that they will take care of the babies for about 4 weeks... you will need to separate the parents from the young at that time or a little before..  need them finely crushed flake food and if you have a BBS to feed them you will get better growth out of them.

[76dragon]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

They will eat the babies. I had bunches of babies, but like you I left them in there too long and they ate all of them. I ended giving them away because they were too agressive

Hope this helps

Phung

[MasterHuang]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

They will eat the babies. I had bunches of babies, but like you I left them in there too long and they ate all of them. I ended giving them away because they were too agressive

Hope this helps

Phung

hey Phung, how long is too long?  my babies still doing very well with both of their parents, and they are now 1 months old.

[mrairportjunke]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

what i gotta do to get me some babys from you??

[76dragon]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

Probably around 1 to 1.5 months. If you don't seperate them, they will be lunch. That is my experience with them. also, when they get bigger , the dominate one will take out the rest.

PN

[MasterHuang]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

i still got about 50 of them left, they're 2 months old now.  both parent still not eating them, in fact the baby is bitting at the mother.

[mrairportjunke]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

what you gonan do with that many flowerhorns. lol.  u gonna need a HUGE tank.  haha

[Zulaab]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

Wow that is incredible.  You have any pictures ?  They have to look good by now :)

[MasterHuang]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

what you gonan do with that many flowerhorns. lol.  u gonna need a HUGE tank.  haha

tell you the truth, i dunno what to do with them.  first i have them in my 80g tank with both parents, because the babies beating up on the mother, i have to remove most of them to my 55g back up tank, right now my whole 55g tank is full of flowerhorns.  they are very healthy, starting showing colors and dots on their body and red on their eyes.

[wvgdiscus]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

If your going to get rid of any send me a pm.

Walter

[mrairportjunke]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

yeah me too.  id like a couple

[278923]

Re: flowerhorn fry help!!!!

me 2 plz lol