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from where the brine shrimp cysts are collected
from, some newly hatched nauplii may not be
small enough for the new Archocentrus spinosissi-
mus fry to consume. It can be tricky finding food
appropriate for the fish to eat on their first fragile
days of free swimming. I’ve found that the best
method is to leave the fry in with the parents in
the densely planted tank where they can pick mi-
croorganisms off of the plants. Parental behaviour
begins to dwindle after about a week post free
swimming and the fry may become vulnerable to
predation by other tank inhabitants. For this rea-
son, I like to siphon out the fry to raise in a
A close-up of Archocentrus spinosis-
simus wrigglers hanging in the roots
of water sprite.
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