Okay well my weekend went horribly wrong. On Friday evening I discovered my two kribs had sucessfully spawned for the first time! They were guarding the fry and chasing off the other occupants, which was fantastic to see the Firemouth blowing out her gills at the Male Krib! Now I wanted to try my hand at raising fry so I realised I must do something to prevent them being lunch. So Saturday morning I ran out to the shop and bought myself a floating breeding trap so I could leave them in the tank and just pop them in there with perhaps the mum. okay so I set that up and then proceded to suck the babies up into a bucket very sucessfully with my gravel vac. then I very painstakingly using a big plastic syringe removed them from the bucket and into the floating trap. Also going fine so far . . .
Then I noticed part way through this procedure that I couldn't see where the onces I had put in had gone. then I realised they were finding there way round the edges of the floating floor and then through the little slots in the bottom and into the open moughts of the jewels waiting below! Horiffied I quickly stopped what I was doing and decided on another course of action. I removed my Sev from the 15gal tank in the study where he had recoved from a bacterial infection. Plopped him back in the main tank. Then set about catching the krib parents and putting them in the bucket with the remains of their fry. Okay getting there, I then took the bucket and its contents upstairs to the study and sorted out moving things about in the tank and doing a little water change. My partner was looking at the krib family in the bucket and suddenly pointed out to me that both parents were rapidly eating their fry!
By this point I had really given up and just though sod it and decided to empty them into the 15gal anyway and perhaps one day they might try again.
But it seems that my vain efforts to save my fry didn't end up totally in vain. When I went up stairs again an hour or so later I saw they mother shepparding around a little batch of fry! Hurrah I saved some! the number of fry may have dropped from 70 to 15 but I have some!
Just thought I would share my little adventure.
SO now please tell me what to feed them?
I have some baby fish powder food and frozen Dauphinia is this okay?
Then I noticed part way through this procedure that I couldn't see where the onces I had put in had gone. then I realised they were finding there way round the edges of the floating floor and then through the little slots in the bottom and into the open moughts of the jewels waiting below! Horiffied I quickly stopped what I was doing and decided on another course of action. I removed my Sev from the 15gal tank in the study where he had recoved from a bacterial infection. Plopped him back in the main tank. Then set about catching the krib parents and putting them in the bucket with the remains of their fry. Okay getting there, I then took the bucket and its contents upstairs to the study and sorted out moving things about in the tank and doing a little water change. My partner was looking at the krib family in the bucket and suddenly pointed out to me that both parents were rapidly eating their fry!
By this point I had really given up and just though sod it and decided to empty them into the 15gal anyway and perhaps one day they might try again.
But it seems that my vain efforts to save my fry didn't end up totally in vain. When I went up stairs again an hour or so later I saw they mother shepparding around a little batch of fry! Hurrah I saved some! the number of fry may have dropped from 70 to 15 but I have some!
Just thought I would share my little adventure.
SO now please tell me what to feed them?
I have some baby fish powder food and frozen Dauphinia is this okay?
