309 Fish Egg
Number of posts : 3 Age : 48 Location : Barnsley, UK Humor : Dry Thank You Points : 0 Registration date : 2013-03-11
| Subject: Fry Loss?? Sun Mar 17, 2013 10:11 pm | |
| Hi Guys, what would you expect to be natural fry loss? I ask because i have a 350ltr tank (280ltr of water) with community fish. I have endlers in here and my tank is now full of fry approx 80. In the last 2 days i have found 2 dead fry. They had a milky appearance but this may be because they are dead?? I am in the process of selling my female endlers as they are like machines at producing fry and i am being over-run. The tank mates are 3 platy's, 4 dalmatian mollies, 2 neons, 4 gold cloud mountain minnows, a common BNS pleco and a golden sucking loach (juvenile), this is in addition to the 4 females and 3 male endlers. Checked water and i have 0 nitrites, nitrates and ammonia. Started water changing with RO water to bring my TDS down ready for some pleco's. This hasn't affected the water parameters tooo much so far as i am changing 70 litres of water (30%) and of this 50 litres is RO with 20 litres treated tap water.
Would you say this was just natural loss as the rest of the fish appear absolutely fine.
I also have a bubble curtain so i don't suppose it could be lack of oxygen in the water as i have plenty of surface disturbance. | |
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Doug Bristlenose King
Number of posts : 3128 Age : 38 Location : Adelaide, South Australia Job/hobbies : Aquatic ecologist/genetisist Humor : yes please :) Thank You Points : 198 Registration date : 2010-05-08
| Subject: Re: Fry Loss?? Mon Mar 18, 2013 8:48 pm | |
| seems normal to me | |
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ktk05 Large Bristlenose
Number of posts : 381 Age : 37 Location : Cape Coral, FL, USA Job/hobbies : Registered Respiratory Therapist @ hospital Thank You Points : 17 Registration date : 2012-08-23
| Subject: Re: Fry Loss?? Sun Mar 24, 2013 3:07 pm | |
| I woul keep a close eye on everything just to be sure. I know with swordtails I get the occasional individuals that just won't grow right. Their siblings will be 2-4x bigger than them and they eventually die.
I am too inexperienced with BNs to say the same for them though. My pair successfully hatched 6 witch are all doing fine (counting my blessings!) | |
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