Moving African Cichlid Fry to a Grow-out Tank!

Well it happened! As suspected the leleupi were cooking up some lil babies in their cave, and I came home Wednesday night to find the fry hatched :O Interestingly, in the past I have left them longer and noticed more fry than what I did this time. I'm glad I got the ones that were there while I could!
In this video I show you the process of catching these little guys and setting them up in their new breeding rack/grow out tank :)
Timestamps:
1:14 - The grow-out tank/breeding rack setup
2:40 - Finding the African Cichlid fry
5:17 - Removing the fry - 2 attempts...
8:25 - An update on the fry! How did they go?
Let me know.... What are your best fry raising tips? This is my first time ever attempting to raise fry!
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[@brianpowell2298]

As a guppy keeper I understand the excitement of babies, watching them grow and color up! Only difference is no saving needed bc there are always hundreds!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, very true!! Those little guys are survivors

[@griffinballfish]

katie putting in the work and uploading at 1 am let's go, im here for it

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, I'm on the grind 😤🙌

[@satominishime5341]

Kaity, I would separate the parents in a breeder tank and let them breed and care for the fry. Once the fry get a little bigger, then you could put the parents back in the tangynikan tank. Or, you could let them just continue to breed in the main tank. You won’t get all of them to survive but, the parents will get better at protecting them over time, and you’ll get some survivors.

[@freeroamer9146]

"They're doing the most dangerous thing they could possibly do"! Sounds like raising kids! 😯 Nice job. It'll be fascinating to watch them develop into adulthood! 👍

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, that is exactly them!! It seems all species are the same 😅

[@rikardfriberg9529]

Yea. A smaller tank would be easier. But they are quite active already and swimming around. Which means they are searching for food as well. One great tip is to get a shrimp tank. It will build up with small bugs and worms because shrimp do not eat them. So when you see many of these creatures in the shrimp tank, you can put a batch of fry in it and they will have the perfect natural food and clean the tank up as well. Then move them to another tank when they get bigger. And support them with some ground flake food as well, to get them used to it. I am breeding killifish myself. I have tried almost all methods to hatch the eggs. Putting them in damp peat moss, on paper towels, in water, and so on. But the best success is just tossing the eggs into a shrimp tank. Shrimp are perfect for keeping the environment clean and tumbling the eggs around.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Wowwww, how cool!! Shrimp would be so much fun to have too. Thank you so much for the tip! I might actually try that at some point :)

[@thehairywoodsman5644]

get a prefilter sponge, or get a sponge and wrap it around the filter intake and secure it with zip ties.

[@jbmjbm323]

I LOVE my Leleupi Lemon Cichlid in my 20Gal Tank with their babies that spawned last October 2023. And I am glad I got a hold of a 20Hal Hexagon Tank to let these BABIES grow out. Until now they are a treat to look at and the way they change color and get darker. Hope your baby físhys grow big and not get sucked up into your filter!

[@JohnD-hw1gr]

I love that you said it the American way!😊

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, it's finally getting to me hearing the American pronunciation lol

[@dingodave3966]

Love that you go to the trouble for perhaps just a couple of little fishies. 👍🏻

[@cichlaguru]

excited to see these little ones grow. Makes me want African Cichlids again. Beautiful set up.

[@davegates7862]

Kaity great job and video! As you learn the tricks of raising fry I am sure you will read many useful tips from all your subscribers. A few tips that work for me is siphoning with an aquarium depth rigid tubing attached to some flexible airline and a small shut off valve at the end. Works well for cleaning debris and moving the fry. You can control the flow precisely by using gravity to back flow by raising/lowering the siphoning line in a plastic container. Another tip is using snails as your aquarium cleaners. Algae isn’t such a problem when they are eating it constantly. All the Best! Dave

[@marknewman3360]

Been away for a bit. Great video to come back to. Now I need to play catch-up

[@Kaityscichlids]

Welcome back!! 🙏

[@roohollahyeylaghiashrafi7095]

Perfect description

[@brianholdridge1860]

I am a recent fin baby dad as well. I share your excitement and look forward to seeing your fish babies grow up as well. BTW, I also had a few moments when rescuing babies that went better in my head.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Awww, congratulations!! Hahaha, often these things seem to go better in my head

[@jamiehoney9889]

Thats great news on the fry. Can't wait to see how they grow and develop.

[@norbertthoens3561]

Viel Glück mit dem Nachwuchs! 🍀Für den Anfang, wenn die Jungen noch so klein sind, solltest du sie besser in einen kleineren Behälter setzen, so dass sie voll "im Futter stehen" können. 😉

[@nunyabizzness6468]

A fine mesh net works well for catching them, also please get a new syphon hose Kaity-that is a health issue with all that mold, Bunnings sell it by the roll n its inexpensive vs a hospital visit

[@johnwoodall3791]

Pretty awesome Kaity !!.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you :D

[@stefanhakansson7316]

Nice work, thanks for letting us see 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪

[@woczykij3838]

beautiful fish 🐠💙

[@anthonyeveler4820]

Great video that’s so amazing you have babies now can’t wait to see them grow up

[@Kaityscichlids]

I'm so excited 😁🐟🐟🐟

[@briangilman1937]

Love your fish keeping journey. I appreciate your trials and tribulations

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you! :)

[@jerrysfishroom3579]

You are doing great. Keep it up and enjoy the learning process

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much :)

[@dixsigns1717]

Hi Kaity, how exciting!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you :D🎉

[@pascoerusso8615]

Hi Kaity , Congrats on the fry & cant wait to see their progress ....🥰😊👍

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much!! Hopefully they grow well :)

[@kwa881]

Can;t wait to see them grow, very excited and wait for your next video. Hard work but hug reward. Good job!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much :D

[@iain2070]

Well done you, Loving your energy. Enjoy the journey ..

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much :)

[@daengkurniofficial]

Your videos are always amazing with such beautiful and healthy fish

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much❤️ I appreciate it :)

[@Nanoscape]

They’re so smol 🥹 excited to watch them grow up!

[@Kaityscichlids]

So tiny and smol 🥹 Hopefully they make it to adulthood!

[@paulrichardson2229]

Kaity best of replacing the filter with just sponge filters for a fry tank, much safer lol, best of luck with the upbringing

[@markr9984]

Best of luck Kaity!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you :D

[@IronTiger84]

Great video Kaity🤩‼️ I love the new addition to your fish keeping domain 🐟🐠🪨🥰

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you Joey :D

[@sfephenmarkham1917]

Don't sweat it, your doing awesome! Love you and your channel:]

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much :)

[@johnwoodall3791]

Kaity Fry. I'll Fry them for you, Drop an Electrical device into the tank & Zap. (Of course I am only Joking). They are so Small how do you Differentiate them from just particles of sand. Incredible stuff. Your Quarantine Tank looks Perfect for what your doing. Classy Act as well with your Narration of what you are doing. I see the shelf system is far more settled now. Have Fun. Regards John.

[@fishmunga1014]

Congratulations G'mama, on your Philip J. Fry. ;)

[@Leroy62914]

I have about 8 babies scattered around my tank at the moment, put more rocks in a while back and now more are surviving.

[@MizeryScratcher]

always fun to watch your vids.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you :D

[@travisrichards6181]

Amazing video, Ms Kaity! :) Hope the babies do well for you! Thank you for another great video! You looked incredibly fancy in that white dress! :)

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much :D

[@akvaryumkeyfi]

I think putting the couple in that separate tank would be perfect 👌 They will raise the fry at a certain point then you can syphon or net them to lower aquarium.

[@Kaityscichlids]

I think that's definitely a better idea!! Because this was chaos 😱

[@lynnrobertson4657]

Congratulations on your baby fry I look forward to seeing them grow up🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you :D

[@michellethorpe8700]

This is a great video I was breeding guppies and tried to catch some and save them from being eaten babies are awesome 🙌

[@sharpygsxr]

Always so exciting when you see fry its like omg my fish are happy in their environment. Also cant lie it was entertaining watching you trying to catch them. BTW when you first walked into the garage saying i had a bit of algae, i was like bloody hell thats a lot of algae but it cleared up easy enough by the look of it :) bonus is that your fry will probably love picking at the remaining bits

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, it was a bit of an algae explosion 🤣 Luckily hair algae is super easy to remove, not like black beard algae

[@sushobhanmanna3950]

As always another great video. In fish keeping hobby fish giving birth is an another level of excitement. Can't wait to see them fully grown, but I have to say Laila always steals the show.. she is so cute 😍

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you!! 😁 Very exciting times. And she is a little cutie lol 🦜

[@Ben-zl7dl]

I only ever fill smaller/breeding tanks from the mother tank. I either bucket it or syphon ect. Saves so much time and money trying to age new water 😊

[@youwharton]

For that tank in the garage with put in the filter foam on there you also have an intake at the middle of the hang up on the back. If you look it’s right below the pump, the square part on the bottom.

[@trexgamer73]

Great video Kaity! You look amazing in that white dress.

[@josephkishon8524]

I too noticed that.....she is pretty in it.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Awww, thank you!!

[@dadigitechman]

Ive found with algae blooms and green water the PH gets very high. Never seemed to effect the fish though. My last goldfish fry were grown out in green water so dark you couldnt see them unless they were right at the glass. They were very healthy though. Bottom line is no need to panic from my experiance. Enjoy your fry.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Ahhh, interesting! It never even thought about that correlation. Thank you heaps :)

[@thisadventure1306]

Look beautiful ❤

[@forestpassion4464]

Hi. its always exciting to have new fries soon you will have guppy fries too. you did everything you can so best luck i hope you will see them growing well. 🐡🐟🐠💕

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much 🤗🐟💕💕

[@sheikhshakib55]

Your fish looks healthy, Mine are trying to breeding too,❤❤ you are best

[@Kaityscichlids]

That's so awesome to hear!🐟🐟🐟

[@zlamanit]

Here are my tips - use a sponge filter - maybe don’t have substrate at the bottom - use a smaller tank

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, see, I predicted it! 🤣

[@Siriq789]

I like how you just blew the air in the cave... that was smart...

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, I did my best :'(

[@75keg75]

Putting some fine filter bag around the filter intake will work. The foam as you have is fine.as long as holes are smaller the fish. Saves have puréed fish. I opened up a prof 3 canister filter nd found an electric yellow in there about 1” long. Not sure how long he was in there for. As no other ” babies in the tank. The heater is fine it would drop and they would take off.. hopefully you got yourself one of those inkbird controllers or something similar to watch temps as you don’t want them to cook

[@hoboelephant37]

Just to give a few more reasons why this is the better way is you can suction cup the cage with the top rail just above the water line so the fry cannot swim out. the fry while in the collapsable mesh breeding cage can't swim into any filter (so you dont have to use your foam covers). And you can target feed the fry in the much smaller area of a breeding cage(3 or 4 times aday) and still let the rest of the tank operate normally. Hope this helps.

[@Kaityscichlids]

That is very good to know, thank you!!

[@garageaquatics2023]

It's always a blast to see fry in a tank! But I'm curious . . . have you considered moving the parents into your garage tank and let them spawn and raise their fry with out the competition and danger from all of the other fish? And I'd venture a guess that the adults will raise them and you probably won't need to separate them. Just a thought. Enjoy the weekend, Kaity! ~Ron

[@Kaityscichlids]

Most definitely! That's actually what I would like to do, but when I set this tank up it looked like they already were protecting some eggs. So once I grow these guys out (assuming they make it) then I'll try move the parents into there. Thanks heaps Ron :)

[@garageaquatics2023]

@@Kaityscichlids It's always a [;easure, Kaity. Have a fantastic week! 🙂

[@lpoolck17]

When you are using the turkey baster you need to squeeze it prior to submersing it in the water. From your video it looked like you were squeezing it under the water. What this does is push the water out and this push any nearby fry away

[@juliancastillo4804]

Beautiful babies. Could you please help me with what type of lids you used in your tank please?

[@dinodinosaur2930]

Hi Mum, your local fish store should have floating nursery products about 6" x 4" ... You could even use then in the parents tank.

[@mattphillips6714]

The fry you have from the Leleupi, shell dwelling Multis look exactly the same but they have blue eyes.. don’t worry too much about your water quality as the fry will have an extremely low bio-load and the filter will mature at the same rate the fry will.. it must be baby season as today looking in my tank I have 3 successful Multi mums and the fourth one her shell is at an awkward angle to see if she has fry too, time will tell, it really does raise your spirits when fish breed and is the best indicator that your run a very healthy tank.. take care and best of luck 🤞 ❤

[@Kaityscichlids]

Awww, congratulations on the little fry!! It must definitely be the season for it. I googled "baby fish fry" and every picture looked the same hahaha, they are all so similar when they're babies. And I agree, it's definitely great to see them breeding :)

[@touchthesun2448]

Hi Kaity! I's Bob form Touch The Sun... I have had a sudden breakout of Black Angel fish. Today I'm going to buy a breeder tank and get busy breeding Black Angels.

[@Kaityscichlids]

That's so exciting! Congratulations on your fry :) I hope they grow up happy and healthy 🐟💕

[@touchthesun2448]

@@Kaityscichlids First time was a surprise. The other fish ate 'em all. Second time was much bigger! I tried to isolate the eggs, but they were a failure. The parents will clean them. So, let's start a breeder tank just for them Right! What would Kaity do?

[@the88tench3]

Awesome video! That's really cool you've got some fry now to grow on, you did a really good job catching them too given how small they are! Can't wait to see how they grow on 😀🐟🐠 The rack system is coming on well, have you got any other aquariums planned for it as well as the breeding tank? I breed goldfish at home from the pond and have some success with that. I wait for the fish to start spawning then transfer weed with all the eggs in into a water butt at the bottom of the garden which I let fill with rainwater over winter. This then gets an algae bloom in it just before the fish spawn which in turn causes a copepod bloom, so by the time the eggs go in, hatch then the fry use their yolk sacs there's a really good source of food for them! I then feed flakes in there once the fish get big enough and harvest it around October/November when the goldfish are big enough to go into the pond!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Wow, that is awesome!! It sounds like you've got a really good system going with the goldfish. And thank you :D I don't have any other aquariums specifically planned yet, other than I know I need to move the mollies inside. But the rest I haven't decided on yet :O

[@bethanysummers3377]

U could squeeze a filter sponge or put some media in your fry tank to get some nitrate, I would worry u don't have nitrate and fry might die? Love the anubius in your other tank on the rocks! We tried it but the Africans ate it all after a few months. We used the syphon hose method once when we has some red Forrest jewels breeding in a community tank, we managed to save about 20 and grew them and gave them to our local fish store to sell.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Wow, that's a pretty good yield you got using the siphon! That's good to know. For the fry tank, I originally seeded it with media from my sump, and I was adding food to keep the cycle going, so I do think there were some nitrates that the algae was eating up like crazy. Because of all the Pothos in the sump the Tanganyikan tank it also doesn't get too high in nitrates (unlike the Malawi tank lol), so it wasn't too much of a change for them

[@canhobihanem2629]

Cok güzel

[@user-bg5uo8hz6g]

looks like we have Fry at the same time!!! my Blue Eye Cyclids have managed to keep 3 bubbas safe!!!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Awwww, congratulations!! Hopefully they all survive :O

[@user-bg5uo8hz6g]

@@Kaityscichlids 2 have!! very excited by them!!

[@DuzzyDobbin]

Great vid Kaity as always. I’d just add some guppy grass. It will provide cover and food Congrats on the breeding success Regards Duzzy🇦🇺

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you heaps Duzzy :)

[@DuzzyDobbin]

@@Kaityscichlidsyour welcome. I hope they’re going well. Regards Duzzy 🇦🇺

[@brenef]

Maybe put some more rocks into the main tank to give the future fry a better chance of survival. Flake is good as a second food choice for the fry but they should be big enough to take baby brine shrimp and they will grow much quicker. Good luck👍

[@unsocialbutterfly5760]

I’m so glad that other people have drama when trying to save baby fish 😂 I have done many silly things, in an attempt to separate babies and mummas. After much craziness, I finally had success by setting up a small 20 litre cube tank, popped mumma guppy in there and the next day she gave birth to at least 40 fry. She is back with her tank mates today and the babies are safe and sound, happily eating and swimming with no predators. I had babies survive in my community tank, but now I see I was losing more than half to becoming meals for the other fish. I have another pregnant guppy, but after two days in the labour ward tank, she refused to drop them and was very unhappy. I feared she might die, so today she is back and happy again in the main tank, but sadly I know her babies will be eaten. My husband thinks I’m nuts 😂 when he watches all the things I do, and mistakes I make. Don’t worry Kaity, once you transfer the parents, you will be a grandma to lots of babies in the future. I found that those breeder boxes put in tanks, are not great for the babies to survive in, which is why I decided to get a dedicated fry tank, despite having no room for it, I gave up some kitchen bench space…that’s tank number 5 now 😂 When I started this hobby 5 months ago, I was only going to have 1 tank 🤷‍♀️

[@sparehead2163]

😄it is a dangerous hobby for getting out of control welcome and strat looking for more room possibly the garage for the expansion😂😂😂

[@unsocialbutterfly5760]

@@sparehead2163 Yes I absolutely have MTS (multiple tank syndrome) a phenomenon effecting many fish keepers, and there is no known cure 😆 Trust me, I am always trying to find space for another tank, but I’m completely out of room, unless I start putting them outside. Unfortunately I don’t have a garage. I just told my husband last night that I’m going to need a bigger shrimp tank, now that they are multiplying. I get the impression that he regrets encouraging this latest hobby of mine.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Hahaha, that's too funny!! I used to have a Betta tank on the kitchen bench too. Throughout my life it's just been a trial and error of adding tanks to spots then working out where I don't mind having them. This is my first time trying a garage though LOL. And that's good to know, I think I will definitely get to have way more babies if I move the parents in there!

[@billmeyer4773]

Oh my gosh ,you will get a handle on it. Next time just put the mated pair in the tank by there self and then take parents out. Better luck with them all living. Repeat progress 👏

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you!! I'm hoping I will be able to catch them out to do that. It'll be much less stressful that way for them I think🐟💕

[@toxicjbotv9059]

Rule of thumb is two times the amount of filtration per gallon example 40gl tank should have 80gls of filtration

[@KevinLB-kn8mo]

With your pond fish, if you were losing your ricefish one at a time, I would have said your swordtails were taking them out as there was a significant size difference between your swordtails and ricefish. But losing 7 ricefish and a swordtail at the same time would suggest an environmental issue like water parameters or disease. Maybe test the water with your test kit. Check amongst the rocks as you may find your missing fish but I have found with smaller fish the bodies can melt away quickly.

[@fartrellcluggins]

Why is Kaity so adorable

[@Kaityscichlids]

It's Laila's adorable-ness rubbing off on me!

[@majorbruster5916]

Kaity, don't worry too much about a pH of 8.8. The fish are adapted for these fluctuations. You can transfer fish into values like that. Slowly buffer the water later on. Values don't have to be spot on, fish don't measure pH in 0.1 increments, they sense changes within a range but they are sensitive to changes outside of their rapid physiological adjustment rate. This is something you learn as you go along, however, you are right to be diligent about testing the parameters. Let's see how the fry get on.

[@Kaityscichlids]

It's mostly pH, nitrates and temperature fluctuations that I worry about, especially for sensitive fish like little fry - and not so much getting it "right", but just the rapid changes in it

[@max.0328]

Hi kaity So cool you got some fry!! I just wonder why you don't use a little net to catch them out? hopefully they get to grow up.sorry about your swordtail too,a real shame! Oh ,and i must say you look fantastic in that white dress!😯😯 Good luck with the fry!

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you Max!! Very exciting times 😁 I think a net would be difficult to use for it because they tend to sit on the substrate, so it might be hard to sweep them up. It would probably work better if it was a bare bottom tank though

[@max.0328]

That makes Sense i guess.taking the parents out and letting them do their thing in that Breeding tank wil probably be much easier and more successful i think.🙂

[@user-xy5ez5wd1v]

excellence aquatic rescue and you'll be surprised even species that don't eat their own sometimes there's Rarity smart move

[@artoflight2441]

love your white dress' your videos new always so inspiring

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you so much :)

[@womansnewsspirituallife1801]

You’re so very welcome 🙏

[@Hummingbirder1]

Off topic for the video, Kaity, and I don't know if you broach it somewhere in one of your other videos, but how did you get Leila so tame? I have two (male) Pacific Parrotlets and they're not tame. Both bought in a store. Maybe Leila is a handfed baby you got privately? She's so cute, I always hope to see more of her (are we sure it's a female?) but I understand this is a fish-channel so to speak. Anyway, greetings from Sweden...👋

[@Kaityscichlids]

She was hand-fed and raised by my Aunty before I got her which definitely helped, and my Aunty said Laila's personality was quite confident. She has laid an egg before so she's definitely a girl. The other thing my Aunty mentioned is that if you get one Parrotlet they're more likely to bond to you whereas if you have two they're more likely to bond to each other. I'm always happy to answer questions about little Laila and definitely show more of her :p

[@AAE-cg1il]

Congratulations on the fry……..I keep the mbuna variety of cichlids so babies in the tank are not uncommon. Hybrid mbuna are a huge problem in pet stores in the USA so I do nothing and let them become snacks for the adults.

[@JustaKarenDiscoveredTheIntrnet]

cute white dress... u could be fish version of VannaWhite

[@XiaFanFan]

Ik ur an experience fish keeper, but id like to share to this you. Use a smaller tank so that you can see the fish and keep on track wether they are eating or not, use a sponge filter to lessen the chance of the fry getting sucked, dont use substrates/gravel, so that u can clean the tank without mixing the gravel and stressing the fish. But that tank is good for mouthbrooding cichlids since they just place the fry on thier mouth and u can know that theres fry around, bc of that big tank u wont be able to tell if there are any fry.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Help is always welcome!! Thank you heaps :) I definitely think all of that would help

[@ZackGreensReptiles]

When I was breeding maingano cichlids, while a small tank was easier I don't see it being a necessity. Fed 3 times a day, crumbled up flakes almost like a dust and mix it into the water column. They would often times eat while I wasn't watching.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you, that is good to know!

[@pattykake7195]

Would it be easier to have the breeding pair seperate from the main tank and then leave the babies in that tank to grow out, and move the parents back..? Not a cichlid person myself…but have bred others this way. Congrats on the fry..🎉

[@Kaityscichlids]

I think that would definitely work better!! It's just going to be a bit of a pain catching the parents out, but I'm sure I can figure it out

[@EdgarPerez-ut8wb]

Intentalos sacar con un sifón , se van a lograr esos alevines 👍 , saludos 😃🙏...

[@theredneckdevil]

Wow the amount of poop In that tank is crazy if your going to be a breeder I suggest going with bare bottom tanks the amount of unneeded work you did was just crazy

[@MakoyUnggoy]

You've been watching too many American youtubers if you're getting the word 'algae' mixed up... I have the same problem now with the word 'albino' haha!

[@nitesh_am]

It would be best to just move the pair itself directly for a better result. I tried to do the same you have just been doing with the jewel cichlid fry in my tank but the result was always bad. Hopefully you have a better result.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you! I definitely think that will be way better

[@Ishan.patel.]

Try feeding brine shrimp and make your own caves out of clay so its easier to remove them

[@plowman45]

You might want to use a net fish net

[@75keg75]

Do you have the lights on a timer or do they do have a daylight cycle? If timer Drop hours till algae stops growing like crazy. If daylight cycle reduce hours or intensity. I have ecotech radion even with daylight cycle it’s too long and get lots of algae growth. It’s the kind the pleco won’t eat. So become annoying.

[@Kaityscichlids]

They're got a timer on them, but I set them to be on around 12hrs a day. I normally check my tanks in the morning and night, so I find when I change it to be shorter hours I just end up turning the lights back on haha

[@75keg75]

@@Kaityscichlids I have mine cycling opposite of true sun cycle i.e. their dawn is at 2pm and gradually lightens and colour changes to a “noon” at around 8pm then they have dusk about 1-2am so basically a 12hr cycle. But light is on for 8/9 hrs with max bright for about 4/6 hrs. I use room light to inspect. If I need to look in tank I turn on tank with the overuse. They are probably like “wtf man were trying to sleep. But they have no say as I am their master muhahaha… 🤣 Just with algae have you considered putting up a opaque background to block light on the window tank. Other option is putting up a clear tint film with UV blockout as it might cut down algae growth and still look nice and see through.

[@kaitlyn888]

If you want them to have a better chance of surviving and to stay away from the cannister filter, I would add a couple of plants inside the tank for them to hide, and they will nibble on Algae that grows on them

[@Kaityscichlids]

That is a good idea!

[@LostParadiseFarEastPrimorye]

Big thanks ...🐟🐠🐡💕💞💓💙💙💙💚💚💚💛💛💛💦💦💦

[@sirgerbilmacintosh9101]

You seem to have issues with algae occasionally that I'm not accustomed to. I wonder if there's something going on with your tap water that's contributing to it. I don't know, just wondering.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Honestly it's like I'm an expert at prolifically growing every species of algae 🤣 It's like a different type for each tank. It could possibly be something in the water, but I also do have very strong lights. It would be interesting to test

[@toxicjbotv9059]

More flirtation and less light will kill the algae

[@Kaityscichlids]

I think you are right!! It autocorrected filtration to flirtation lol

[@Davidova]

Му favourite cichlid are Julidochromis, that's my love for all my live)

[@Kaityscichlids]

They are very vey cute! I really like my Julies :)

[@mifo2000]

Girl of my dreams just ruined her garage and is no longer the dream hahaha... Its supposed to have a tool chest, bike lift and ATLEAST 3 motorbikes in there... jUST kidding. i got a facotry with car hoists and more tools than i need :P Love the videos and content! I cant wait until next summer in melb so go catching cool little fish and releasing them back into their homes. I like the hunt but i dont like killing stuff, I like the we have people to remove pest destroying aussie land.. (lived in cairns).. Although i can catch and cook yabbies haha, theyre yum

[@Kaityscichlids]

Haha I am the same as you!! I really like catching things, but I don't like killing stuff AT ALL (though I don't judge people who do). But for me the fun is the catch! And thank you heaps :)

[@666Maeglin]

put a flower pot or coconut shell in it

[@rubenalanisjr]

How does your water not evaporate?

[@Kaityscichlids]

I get some evaporation, but it's not too bad. After 2 weeks you normally can see a noticeable difference

[@mihazejn271]

It would much more fun moving the breeding pair to s separate tank and let them care for the fry

[@TealStarLight5]

What kind of lights are those?

[@Kaityscichlids]

They are Chihiros Vivid Minis :)

[@TheTeamfreeup]

What size is this aquarium

[@Kaityscichlids]

The fry one is 120x30x30cm :) And the big one, is 6x2x2ft

[@joemichener2337]

You can get sponge pre-filters for the hang on the back filter. Feed the babies live baby brine shrimp. Fry do not know what is food so they may not go after dead food. I found that live food (moving or twitching) causes the fry to investigate and eat them. You can use a pipette or something to target feed. You could create a fry station. See kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGTTmotmiMSkfas. You could connect with Dean since he breeds a lot of fish and ask him questions.

[@Kaityscichlids]

Thank you sooooo much!! That is so great to know that the HOB filter has a pre-filter for it too