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Feeding baby Cichlids Aster 10-29-2005
Posted by Aster on October 29, 2005, 9:32 am
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I have a pair of Brichardi Cichlids who have been trying to repopulate
the world. There is one baby from the 1st batch, one baby from the 2nd
batch, 8 babies from the 3rd batch and an uncountable bunch from the
4th and last batch. Now that they seem to have the hang of popping out
babies I shudder to think what this is going to lead to. I feed them
about 4 times a day. The morning feeding I give them baby brine
shrimp, twice in the middle of the day with powdered cichlid food, and
once at night with daphnia. Is this too much, too little or about
right? I have another tank cycling to take the pressure off the
parents tank.

Aster


Posted by NetMax on October 30, 2005, 2:44 pm
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>I have a pair of Brichardi Cichlids who have been trying to repopulate
> the world. There is one baby from the 1st batch, one baby from the 2nd
> batch, 8 babies from the 3rd batch and an uncountable bunch from the
> 4th and last batch. Now that they seem to have the hang of popping out
> babies I shudder to think what this is going to lead to. I feed them
> about 4 times a day. The morning feeding I give them baby brine
> shrimp, twice in the middle of the day with powdered cichlid food, and
> once at night with daphnia. Is this too much, too little or about
> right? I have another tank cycling to take the pressure off the
> parents tank.
>
> Aster


Sounds like they having very good success at training their feeder ;~).
At the other extreme, if I notice fry, I might crumble their flake food a
bit, and that's all. Your feeding regiment will encourage them, and even
given very little encouragement, Brichardi are the Tanganyikan Guppies of
the tropical fish world, and will run you out of your tanks. ymmv
--
www.NetMax.tk



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