Free Swiming

[joe1225us]

Placed my eggs in a small tank. Fry hatched yesterday. Started as wrigglers. How long are they wrigglers for and when are they considered free swimming? They are starting to bounce around the tank, but still stick to the walls etc? When do I start feeding them? When are they considered truly free swimming?

[MKD]

Im curious where are the parents and what are you feeding them? There is Time Line sticky which give you an idea.

[joe1225us]

I read the timeline sticky. Which doesn’t exactly explain what is considered free swimming. Off the cone (or magnet in my case) or actually swimming around like tiny fish. Parents are two Blue Diamonds I bought as 2 inch juveniles from Fish Den last May. I think I may have posted pics of them, if not I will soon.

[Wes]

I think Tony is asking are the parents in the tank with the fry so they could feed off the parents.

[joe1225us]

After three times of trying to allow parents to raise fry, I placed eggs in separate tank.

[Wes]

After three times of trying to allow parents to raise fry, I placed eggs in separate tank.


http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?102341-Artificial-rairing-reciepes-Pls
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?96264-Artificial-Rearing-of-Fry

[Bill63SG]

Hope youve been raising bbs,because the time to feed it is now.

[MKD]

Just my experience, everyone is welcome to correct me if im wrong. Lets call day 1 when you see wiggles, 2-3 days after that youll see some 2 black eyes with egg york, some try to swim but fall down to the bottom of tank. Then parents pick them up and put them back to breeding cone. Day 5-7 they start swim all around try to attach to parents , I call it free swimming.

Back to OP, i m curious why dont you let parents. if you take eggs out.and raise without parents. Do you have any plan feeding frys before then can take BBS?