January 22, 2010
Should I leave Jack Dempsey fry with parents
Q… Should I leave Jack Dempsey babies with their parents?
A… Yes, absolutely. Jack Dempsey parents take excellent care of newborns. The parents will help them eat by chomping up their own food into tiny bits for the newborns to eat. They will do this until the fry are able to each larger pieces of food that they can find on the bottom. If there are other fish in the aquarium, the parents will chase them and even kill them to protect the young. This would include other Jack Dempsey cichlids and older juveniles as well. The NEW brood is all important and nothing else matters.
Leave the baby Jack Dempseys with parents for at least three weeks. The fry should at some point (3 - 5 weeks) be removed to a grow-out tank where they can be fed high protein foods and fed often. Keep only as many baby cichlids that you feel you can re-home, give to pet stores or friends or keep yourself. The rest should be culled out.
… Jack Lamountain
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David
May 26, 2011 at 2:02 am
This is the third time my dempseys have had babys. I have tried unsuccessfully to remove them in the past and after about 2-3 weeks they disappear ! What is the best way to remove the fry into their own tank?
jackarthur46
May 26, 2011 at 12:21 pm
David… the best way to remove tiny fry is to gently siphon them out of the aquarium into another 5 or 10 gallon tank with the same water as in the home tank. If your fish are vanishing then maybe they’re being sucked into your filter. When they are that tiny, very little filtration is needed. If at all possible, put the mother in with the fry for 3 to 4 weeks. She will help feed them properly.
Jenny
December 18, 2011 at 5:38 pm
I just got a female JD with her brood of fry, about 2 weeks old, father was electric blue. Mama killed dad before I got them all. When it’s time to remove Mama, could she possibly go in my big 75 gal tank that has five Haps ( aristochromis christii) who are about her size or smaller than her? They’re African, I know, but she won’t be breeding, no mate. The Africans spend a lot of time hiding out.
spankymeat
January 12, 2012 at 7:16 pm
i have a question for u, i also am breeding with a female bgjd and an ebgj, but m male is a lot bigger, my question is how big where ur fish?? im afraid to lose my male while im at work or something