no luck with baby jags

[crazycich]

Hey y'all. Name is Nate. I'm having trouble keeping my baby jags alive. The parents (f1) have bred 6 or 7 times now. The male is about 5" and the female roughly 4 1/2". Both are very healthy, eat healthy, are in a 55 by themselves and have been since they were an inch long. Bear with me here, trying to give as much info as.possible. Anyhoo, every batch of fry gets eaten if I don't take the them out and put them in another tank, where they only last for a couple days.eys after they are free swimming to transfer them They are smaller then any fry I've raised. About an eighthch long. Are they too small to eat on their own? I've tried to feed them daphnia and crushed flakes. My temp is 81° and myPH is 7.6 consistently.

 

[lloyd378]

A few years ago when I had a Dovii pair, they had two "successful" batches of fry before I got rid of the the parents and gave the fry away. They would constantly allow the babies to swim in and out of their mouths without eating them. This may be what your jags are doing and if it is, then removing them from the tank at such an early age may be causing the deaths. I would suggest, and I am no expert here, that you leave the next batch in the tank with them and see whats happens. just a thought

 

[Cory]

Fry of this size are going to only eat very small food. I'd recommend raising them on First Bites or Frozen BABY brine shrimp. Or the best yet a live food like live baby brine shrimp or micro worms. Also a 5 or 10 gallon would be good as fish can have a hard time finding food when little. A large tank is worse in the first few weeks of life.

Also put some java moss and get some algaes growing in the fry raising tank. All these will provide food for the babies to eat in the form of infusoria.

 

[crazycich]

Ok thanks guys. Lloyd, I left the first 4 batches with the parents til they were all gone. The last few times I have taken them out, they last under two days. I'll try some.different foods and see if it helps. Thanks guys. Anything is helpful at this point.

 

[Madness]

This may be a dumb question, but are you putting a sponge over the filter intake so that the babies don't get sucked up into it?

 

[crazycich]

Not a dumbbell question. But yessed I do have a sponge filter I turn on when they have hatched. I turn off the canister filter. This is just strange, I'm no pro but I've raised a lot of fish and these are the only ones that don't last for anything. Maybe its just not meant to be. On the bright side, they are free food. Sorry for the crap spelling, mobile version isn't so easy to type with. Lol

 

[Madness]

I had a pair of jags that were the same way. The fry never survived, then i sold them to Fishman on here and he had the same issues with them. So not sure why