Feeding Syno Multi fry

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Ravnheart
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Feeding Syno Multi fry

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Need some advice please. This is my first spawn of these beautiful catfish.
I have a small group of Multi Syno fry. They are about 10 days old now.
I had been feeding them on the host eggs and then added some other cichlid eggs to give them a good start.
Well now I have a problem. I am out of eggs to feed them. Lastnight before I went to bed I made sure they was well fed and nice fat bellies.
I gave them some crushed flake food and some super soft krill pellet food. Is the krill ok for them?
When I got up today I checked on them and during the night they had killed and ate one of the siblings.
How do I prevent this from happening at night when I am asleep?

Thanks so very much in advance :d
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Re: Feeding Syno Multi fry

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Looks like this post might have gotten lost in the shuffle. I'm sure there are many users on this forum who have raised multipunctata or grandiops. I always fed mine pulverized carnivore pellets made by Hikari. They seemed to stay full just eating about half a pellet a day between the 5-7 i raised at a time for the 1st month. Yours are a month older now. How are they coming along?
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Ravnheart
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Re: Feeding Syno Multi fry

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Thank you for the response. They are doing great and about 2 inches now and in one of my larger tanks. I separated them into two different breeder nets and did not have anymore issues with them turning on each other. I fed them on super soft krill pellets and some NSL pellets crushed to start out with, they grew quickly on them. Now they eat just about anything :)
Getting over the hump of getting them on regular food was the hardest part, but now I know how to deal with that part. Its been a joy to be able to raise them :)
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