Rams eggs

[Sky Devil]

I found my rams laying eggs on the gravel... But its in a community tank with 9 neons, 10 over platy, 3 bettas and 3 apple snails in a 2ft.

How do i ensure the eggs survive to birth and from birth to adulthood? I can only remove one kind of fish or animal. My tank is planted and the rams egg place is somewhere secluded

[Goondoo]

What are your priorties?

If you its Ram fry, remove everything else, maybe not the snails....

[Sky Devil]

But i do not have anymore tank to put my fishes. Why dun remove snails? They are those big ones......
Unless someone is willing to help me keep 9 neons, 12 red, orange platies for awhile

[Sky Devil]

ok. Now i put this partition for the rams. What will be the ram's fry first food? BBS? And feed for how long? I'm too use to breed bettas and dunno about cichlids

[joopsg]

current i have a brood of fries just free swimming today.
feed them Liquidfry No1 for a few days.
Then change BBS lor...
I personally will use decapsulated BBS eggs

[Sky Devil]

ok. This is the 2 1/2 days already. Eggs not hatch Yet. When will it hatch? I manage to take out all the fishes but couldn't catch 2 chinese algae eaters and 1 platy. Ok witht that right?

[Simon]

why dont you cover the eggs [] have read that its possible.. but i have never tried this method

[ckll]

Seen on fins N tail that they cover the discus eggs (on slab) with a stainless steel mesh (pretty much the type that you use to tie xmas moss or riccia to).

If miss the Mon episode, think there's a re-run today on CNA.

[Sky Devil]

but if i cover the eggs, the parents won't be able to pick out dead eggs