Big enough to be with the adults.

[MoeBetta]

I was wondering what was a good size to wait for before introducing the babies back in with the mature fish?

1/2 size, 1/4 size???

I’ve seen my adults go after black worms which I figured would have been bigger than they would be interested in.

I’m not really close to being comfortable with the fry I have being big enough, just wondering really.

Thanks!

[MChambers]

1/2 an inch is certainly safe. Right now, I’ve got two 1/2 inch fry in my main cpd tank.

Interestingly, Saturday I saw that two tiny (free swimming) fry also are in the tank, and there were still doing fine Sunday evening. I think I’m just going let those small ones stay and see if they survive.

[AquaGirl]

I agree that 1/2 inch should be too large for the parents to eat.

My CPD can eat white worms with no problems and they are pretty large in comparison to the adults. :wink:

[MoeBetta]

Sounds like a plan. Has anyone run into their juveniles eating their fry?

Aka do I need to bother separating the mediums fromthe freshly hatched?

[AquaGirl]

@MoeBetta wrote:

Sounds like a plan. Has anyone run into their juveniles eating their fry?

Aka do I need to bother separating the mediums from the freshly hatched?

I removed the larger fry that are about one month old because I was afraid that they would try to eat the newly hatched.

I did not see them bothering them but didn’t want to take a chance that they would. Is a little paranoia a bad thing? :lol:

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