Vacation problem

[geeks_15]

So I'm going on vacation and I'll be gone for 6 days. I can't find anyone to feed my free swimming apisto baenschi fry (I just spotted them 2 days ago). I've thought of 2 options.

1. Leave them in the tank with parents and hope they find some food. The tank is planted with a dirt/gravel bottom and a large sponge filter.

2. Put the fry in my 45 gallon outdoor pond. I don't want to risk putting my pair of apisto baenschi in the pond, just the fry in hopes that some would survive. The pond has some zebra danios that have spawned and I put a pair of apisto alacrina in several weeks ago. I'm not sure if the apistos are still in there. Hopefully they are, but I can't see into the pond well enough to find them or know with certainty that they are gone.

What is my best bet to get some fry to survive?

 

[Mike Wise]

In such a well established aquarium, I'm sure that there is plenty of micro-organisms to keep most of the fry alive. I'd keep them where they are. I do this for more than a week at times and most survive.

 

[tjudy]

Let the parents care for them. Regardless of whether they survive or not the parents will learn from the experience. They will spawn again.