Yayyyy my nephew's Jack Dempseys that I have been babysitting for 2 months has just had about 200+ fry. We are trying to catch the parents because it looks like Dad is eating them. M nephew said that they ate them before. Short lived excitement we can't catch the boogers. Waiting on nephew to get here and get them out.

congrads on the fry....hope your nephew gets there soon

Kid is too slow for words. has not made it here yet. Too much pain to stay up and wait on him. Less than 15 min away and has not made it here in an hour and a half yet.

Funny moment though, Sister tried to catch dad and he slapped a nice amount of water her eyes. She was stunned, She was screaming my eye my eye. too funny wish I had it on camera. lol

HAHA that is great.

Son came home and he pulled parents out. Have at least 50 fry left. I feel good now I can go to bed. whew figure out the rest tomorrow

Awesome hope all goes well with them.

congratz.. hope you save some!!

I still have about fry so what I was saying was about 200 babies had to be about 4 - 600 babies cause this 45 gallon was just swarming all over. I am looking at about 3 separate schools of fry and they are so full tried to count at least one school and stop counting at 100 gave me a headache. We are all excited now. I will be even moresoo excited when my angels spawn again.

If I put a pleco in the tank will they bother the babies. he's about 2-3 in. long?

I never had a problem with a pleco in with my dempsey babies.

Plecos and mystery snails have done fine with the two EBJD I've been growing from 1/2" sizes. They also seem to prefer a heavily planted tank - like to hide except for feeding time.

Dempsey babies are doing very good. I think there are at least 250 babies left.