OUCH

[Dan K]

I am so pissed right now! I released about 25 Paralabidochromis chromogynus piebald fry from my egg tumbler last night and this morning I only have a dozen left. Lots of empty white skins floating around in there though. My freaking 3 BN plecos (2-2.5 inch) must have sucked the guts out of half of them overnight!
I never had trouble with that before but I never had BN plecos that large in the newborn fry tank before either.
Lesson learned the HARD way. But why does it have to be with THESE fry!?!! 

[jcunningham0295]

That stinks.   Sorry to hear that. 

[dbosman]

I'm sorry to hear about that.
One thing to try, is leaving a night light on. The theory is it keeps fish off the bottom.

[css merrimac]

That does Not surprise me about Plecos...they even scavenge off expired fish. That's unfortunate for your loss of fish.

[Dan K]

Yeah, I guess I should have paid more attention to how big those BN plecos were getting. Oh well, I can raise more fry and I still have about 40 of them from newborn up to an inch. I was just so thrilled yesterday at having 50+ to work with.

[GrizzlysDad]

Sounds like you need more fry tanks so there isn't any chance of a recurrence  .
In all seriousness, if you are concerned about keeping a scavenger in your fry tanks and are adverse to snails (as I always am), Corydoras are a great choice. ANY cheap Cory will clean much better than ANY "pleco" species.

[Dan K]

Sounds like you need more fry tanks so there isn't any chance of a recurrence  .
In all seriousness, if you are concerned about keeping a scavenger in your fry tanks and are adverse to snails (as I always am), Corydoras are a great choice. ANY cheap Cory will clean much better than ANY "pleco" species.

Thanks for the tip.