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Does anyone have any tips/success stories on raising farowella fry?

I have read the article in Shane's World by Bruce Brethauer and he gives some good tips but he mentions losing lots of fry in first few weeks. My farowella vittata just laid eggs and if they are fertile I want to try to raise as many as possible.

Pete

Searching the forum and doing some textual changes to the links in various threads led me to this:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3649

There's a couple of links away from Planet Catfish there that probably will help, but also this:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/shanesworld/S_R_250.PHP [which used to be .../sturisoma_leightoni.html].

These aren't quite as easy to get the fry to survive as for instance Ancistrus - as I understand it, one of the reasons is that the fry are more worried about moving around than starving, so it needs the food to be RIGHT at their mouth.

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Mats

MatsP wrote:Searching the forum and doing some textual changes to the links in various threads led me to this:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3649

Mats

Thanks I searched the forum but must have not done textual changes. I translated German pages and will read them tonight since the translation seems kind of rough.

Pete

Does anyone have the ability to feed their adult farowella cats algae wafers? Mine don't ever find it gets all mushy and the fish eat it.

If you have a success story that would be SICK because they're not too cheap either...

What I would do is buy another 10 gallon tank and put the heat up at the right temp for algae and keep the filter off/super bright florescents on for like 3-4 weeks. For the water... use high nitrite water or maybe you can even put plant food in there (read up). When your other tank needs a water change... syphon the water into the new tank so it builds up tons of algae...

Then if the babies run out of algae to eat you just have to do a water change w/o disturbing the algae too much, set the temperature appropriately, do a amonia/nitrate test, and move them into the high algae tank. This is what I'm doing for my poor starving farowella cats.

My 1st one died from starvation (that's my belief)