wiggler

Question
Hey I have a male flowerhorn and a female red terror she had laid eggs on a brick that I place with in my 240 g I remove the eggs to my 10 gal and most of them turn white but I have like 50 wiggler left I need help careing for them

Answer
Patrick,

My first question is, why did you take the eggs out of the bigger tank? The eggs need both parents to survive. The male actually helps remove the egg shell for the newly hatched fry. Both parents guard those fry for quite a long time. The eggs should have stayed in the other tank with both parents. Often times you need to watch the female but for the common practice, she does just fine. But since you already removed them, you have now taken on a 24 hour a day parental duty. As far as feeding the fry, you should already have live food to feed them. Their number one food right now is live newly hatched brine shrimp. They can also get liquid fry food or First Bites from Hikari. You can find all but the brine shrimp at your local fish store. I would make a brine shrimp hatchery and get to hatching them.

Brine shrimp hatchery. you will need

1. 2 2 liter bottles.
2. Air tube
3. a pump
4. light


Take one of the bottles and cut off the bottom 3 inches. If you use a water bottle, cut the bottom where the label ends at the bottom of the bottle. The second bottle, cut at the top of the label. The first one gets inverted into the one. The bottle that still has the top, gets filled with water, brine shrimp eggs, and aquarium salt. Add to this bottle the air tube connected to the pump. When that is all done, turn a light on and place it right above the brine shrimp eggs and leave it on for 24 to 36 hours. The light gives the eggs the heat they need to hatch.

When they hatch, turn off the pump and wait 10 to 15 minutes. This allows the egg shells to separate from the brine shrimp and float to the top. You can harvest the shrimp by emptying the hatchery via the air tube, into a coffee filter and a cup of water. Then rinse the brine shrimp in clean water and then feed them to the fry.

If you have any more questions, don't hesitate to ask.