Glofish Danio Baby?

[Ash_sicem]

I convinced my boyfriend to finally get a fish tank and he has 5 danio glofish. Today he found a baby just swimming about in the tank but says that the female looks like she is still pregnant. I have no experience with fry or anything. I had him remove the fry to a smaller tank so it isn't eaten but past that, I'm lost. What do the fry eat? What do I do if there are more fry or eggs? How long do they need to be separated? Basically any advice would be appreciated!

 

[Cori Elizabeth]

Keep seperating fry into the smaller tank, once they've absorbed the yolk sack they can eat brine shrimp, micro worms, vinegar worms etc. Generally I separate fry until they're big enough not to be eaten.

 

[tocandesu]

I would like to add that its baby brine shrimp, adult brine shrimp are too large.

If you don't want to mess with live foods, you could use a tiny bit of a hardboiled egg yolk. Crumble it up and put in the tank. Vacuum out the leftovers. Hikari First Bites fry food might work as well.

 

[Ash_sicem]

The fry went undetected for an unknown amount of time because it does not have a yolk sac anymore. When can we begin feeding it flakes?

 

[Claire Bear]

If you dont have brine, crumble an extremely small single flake and I think you will find it eating this. I bought pairs of kiilli fish and never bought anything special for them-more success with the proper set up but I would try that if it were me.

 

[Ash_sicem]

If you dont have brine, crumble an extremely small single flake and I think you will find it eating this. I bought pairs of kiilli fish and never bought anything special for them-more success with the proper set up but I would try that if it were me.

Thanks for the advice, as you can tell, this was quite unexpected. I will try that and see if it will eat it.

 

[THEREALTOLMO]

I had multiple experience with breeding dainos, I even successfully bred them in a 5 gallon using a plastic "box" with two angelfish :/
I fed my babies with bits of freeze-dried brine shrimp, and they ate quite well.