Fry Grow-Out Tank

[shawnhu]

Tetra started making small nano tanks, and I thought it'd be perfect to grow out some small fry. It's a 1.5G Cube, seamless. Comes with an LED light, and in-tank filter from Whisper and an air pump. The rest isn't really anything worthy to mention.

Here's a pic.

 

[Rbishop]

Nice!

 

[Weezer]

Nice fry tank..........

 

[Damodred]

All these guppy pics are making me want to get into them again... I only have a male, three females, and three ~one week fry right now... Oh, the temptation!

 

[shawnhu]

Thanks! These guys really don't need much attention. They're running on no filtration, some plants, and house about 20 fry in that little 1.5G. I think they are starting to out-grow it though. They'll be moved to the community tank soon.

 

[shawnhu]

All these guppy pics are making me want to get into them again... I only have a male, three females, and three ~one week fry right now... Oh, the temptation!

That's a great start! That one male to 3 female ratio is perfect I think. I started from the surviving one male and 2 females.

 

[Damodred]

Do you leave your females in the main tank to have the babies or do you move them when they're getting close? I always used to leave them in the main tank in a plastic breeder, but now I'm moving them to my 5.5g invert tank with tons of randomly floating java moss, cabomba, and guppy grass. The babies, unsurprisingly, are much happier there.

 

[jm1212]

very nice

 

[shawnhu]

Do you leave your females in the main tank to have the babies or do you move them when they're getting close? I always used to leave them in the main tank in a plastic breeder, but now I'm moving them to my 5.5g invert tank with tons of randomly floating java moss, cabomba, and guppy grass. The babies, unsurprisingly, are much happier there.

I usually just catch the babies and transfer them to their grow-out tanks. I usually don't suffer much, if any losses. With a planted tank, it'll be tough to catch all the babies, but I do that during feeding time and with a small brine shrimp net.

 

[AquaGem]

Cute!