ok, i have fry…now what?!

[plymbloke]

right, in total i have managed to find 5 fry over the last week or so. only one managed to live past 2 days, 2 dying over night! HELP!!!

I put the fry in a small half litre container, with some jave moss and have been doing my normal fry thing of changing the water daily. the last remaining fry is now free swimming, but what on earth do i fed one fry on? i dont want to swap it – one drop of liquifry and it will be far far too much

Any help gratefully received.

cheers

chris

[Crazedpuffer]

Baby brine shrimp?

[chr15_8]

i would feed it a drop of liquifry about an hour maybe 2 hours before the daily water change.

1) does the tank have any type of filter in it? (or water movent eg airstone)
2)what do you change the water with(do you use water from your other tanks and how much water do you change?

chris

[MacedonianLion]

i did the same mestake with my first 3 fryes, they died the first night, i dont think they can survive under 24 degrees, myne were in a box off 1L, now i have about 35 fryes in a guppy breeding box but in the same aquarium as they were born so same water same parametars, and all have been ok the last 2-3 weeks, i think that every litle change will kill them so dont try to move them too much.

[plymbloke]

cheers all,

I dont have any filter or water movement in there at all, thats why i change the water every day (water is taken from the breeding tank with 100% change – i gently syphon out 50%, top it back up again, then syphon another 50% before topping back to full so i dont disturb the fry too much). I have got a net breeding thingy to go into the main tank but i wanted the fry to be a little bit bigger before they went in there, as i found with my pencilfish fry that they survived only after they had been free swimming for a few days first.

Ill try the feed before water change method though – makes sense, and after about a week ill put them into the net breeder i think – give that ago!

many thanks

[chr15_8]

@plymbloke wrote:

cheers all,

I dont have any filter or water movement in there at all, thats why i change the water every day (water is taken from the breeding tank with 100% change – i gently syphon out 50%, top it back up again, then syphon another 50% before topping back to full so i dont disturb the fry too much). I have got a net breeding thingy to go into the main tank but i wanted the fry to be a little bit bigger before they went in there, as i found with my pencilfish fry that they survived only after they had been free swimming for a few days first.

Ill try the feed before water change method though – makes sense, and after about a week ill put them into the net breeder i think – give that ago!

many thanks

i think that might be why as there will be no bacteria (i might be wrong)

i would put it straight into the breeding net as it will have more chances of living in my opinion

chris

[celestialdude]

That’s too frequent for water change! Twice a month is just right!

[plymbloke]

they are now in the breeding net The only reason i did a water change is because there was zero filtration and the water that replacing the ‘old’ was from the main tank anyway so didnt think it would be a problem.

cheers

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