Reply To: I HAVE FRY!!!!!
Worrying is a good thing, in moderation. :lol: I know how you feel though. I found my first fry yesterday. They’d been sucked into the trickle filter despite my efforts to block up the slots in the strainer inlet. Fortunately with adding more media to the filter it’s slowed the water flow through to the outlet holes and created a little pool on top of the wool pad so they could breathe and swim about. Cue completely ignoring my girlfriend all evening and dis-assembling my filter to look for fry. I’m amazed they survived the impeller to be honest. A few had died. I now have 3 swimming around in a fine mesh filter bag (similar to a breeder net, but without the frame) attached to the side of the tank, all shoaling already. I’ve solved the inlet problem as I found some circular course sponge in a shop. That’s now tied on with string stopping fry getting through. Actually, do you reckon i’m likely to get more fry from letting them be sucked up into the filter, or waiting until they appear in the tank, providing they don’t get eaten? I guess it’s cruel though given there’s a chance they could get sliced in half by the impeller. All seemed intact though. Spookily I bought some Liquifry #1 yesterday afternoon before finding them in anticipation of them breeding. How often should you feed this for? It states a few days on the instructions. I have the opposite problem with the Liquifry sinking to the bottom of the mesh bag and dissolving through the mesh into the main area of the tank as the water flow is downwards. Anyway, good luck with them! 