Fry help ASAP

[Dwarfnut]

Congrats on the new family Somefinn! I finally gave up on raising any more Bolivian Ram babies as I have no where to put them!! I have three pairs in my 75 gallon and at least one pair always has some babies and usually another pair will lay eggs! I too have also found that if I don't separate them, then eventually all the fry will disappear, but only after they are free swimming so I can't be sure the parents are doing it! There are other fish in the tank. If I ever get some room, I'll move some fry out.

When I do move fry out, I used frozen BB shrimp mixed with a few drops of the liduid fry stuff and also just a small small pinch of this powdered baby fry food stuff. Seems to do the trick...

Anyway, good luck,
Bill C.

 

[wetmanNY]

Your water changes and fresh carbon have pulled the methylene blue by now. Your water out of a heavily planted tank is full of the best nutrition for them. The microworms will make a good next step.

How great to have a local AC poster with microworms. They're so easy to keep-- except I lost mine in the heat wave last summer.

As for me, I'm just an amateur fishhead. I had my first tank about 1956, and I've been reading and talking and looking and asking questions and looking things up and trading information ever since. But I've never had more than a hundred and something gallons going at any one time (apartment living).

But I've learned as much since the summer of 1999 on the Internet than in all the years before. It's like living upstairs over a good college library. And better all the time!