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I’m sure most people would picture the golden colored buttered rectangular deep fried food that comes with tarter sauce and mound of french frys(or chips) when they hear the “fish stick”.

But the tiny frys are fish and shape like stick. And they barely move. So I call them fish stick although I would not dip them in the tarter sauce. :lol:

They are too small to fill me up anyway.

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aquaholic85,

“fish stick(s)” is the newly hatched frys which still barely able to move. Some people call them wigglers but I call them fish stick since they are fish but look like a stick.

katkin,

You are correct Sir/Mom.

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Today I decide to do some water change from the tank I have 3 CPD trio is in. This is the 2nd tank I put them in since the 1st one have enough free-swimmers and I know the adults sometime eat the small fish sticks.
Anyway, they have been in the 2nd tank for about 2 weeks now and I was wondering when I see the fish sticks on the tank surface. Although I have not see any, then again I missed it since the tank have black sands in it and I also put some glass marbles on top ot the sands to discourage the adults to eat the eggs and frys.
And I took out like 2 gallon with vaccum but without the hard plastic part so not to disturb too much. And I saw 2 fish sticks on the bottom of white pail. I guess I have some frys in the 2nd tank now.
I guess I should set the 3rd tank so I can move them soon before they try to eat their young.
I guess setting another small tank is not such a bad problem to have. Although I need to find the right size tank and spot to set it up.

Hopefully another 2~3 weeks(while the adults would be in the 3rd tank), the 1st batch in the first tank get big enough and I can move them to bigger tank(probably 20Long) that I have frys from the Corydoras are in and also have a cave that I think the Daddy Albino bristlenose is guarding eggs/frys at the moment.
Hopefully 3 small tanks is enough to rotate and move the adults around. And hopefully by January which should be over 12 weeks, I have some young CPD. Of course, I would offer them first to my aquarium society. But I already have one store told me that they would take whatever I have left. :wink:

Although there are no visible frys in the 2nd tank, I imagine there must be another 50 between eggs and fish sticks. And they should show up in a week. I just need to move the adults so they will not make the snack out of the future CPD. And I need to keep and grow them to be about 12 weeks. And hopefully I find them a good home and I get some fish money. So I can get more fish supply.

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Thanks L777,

I think I just let the first tank alone and sort themselves out. And leave them there for a month or so and move them to another bigger tank. They can live with my young Corydoras. And I will clean the tank a little and get the parents back in there again. I think I probably rotate 3 small tanks where the parents can stop over 2 weeks each or so or when I notice the fish sticks hanging . I’ll move them to next tank. That is my plan for now and see how it goes.
Hopefully I have tons of frys in 2 month. Especially the big frys I can pass to other hobbyists. And some more fish sticks and all the frys of different sizes.

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Hi chr15_8,

Thanks for the welcome and congrats. I don’t know how tough to raise them to the adult yet but it sure easier than Neon Tetras.

Hi albatross,

Thanks for the welcome. And that is a good tip. I should’ve looked around a bit before ask. :oops:
And Judging from the picture, I guess most of the frys are around week old. So I guess I need another 11 weeks to feel good about passed them to another hobbyist.

And hopefully, I see some more fish sticks on the 2nd tank in week or 2 and forced to find yet another tank for them. :wink:

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