Pygmaeus Fry
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Hmm,The room temp is cool. With me at work all day and my sons in school, I keep the room temp around 65.
The big guy is very active tonight, lots of swimming. I'm hoping that's a good thing. Was able to snap a few more pics.....
I want to try to keep this thread up-to-date since it's a great reference for me to go back and look at dates for fry. Didn't see the bigger fry at all yesterday so I got worried. There are a LOT of places that I cannot see in that tank....thick water sprite grows along the gravel, the taiwan moss is very thick on top of two pieces of driftwood, I have several crypts that are getting thick....basically I can't examine much except the very front third of the tank. So it's always possible fry are out of sight. (hit enter for Nolapete)
I turned the lights on manually this morning to catch the fish out of their beds!:grinyes: I saw the big fry. Today I can actually see his stomach has filled out since the other day. He (or she) is actually a baby fish now. And I was able to spot several other tiny fry from the eggs that hatched in late December. So those fry are about 10-14 days old and still extremely tinier than heck! I've begun to feed the tank heavier than before and am including frozen BBS twice a day. (hit enter for Nolapete)
And I am not trimming my taiwan moss anymore since I may actually have had a hand in losing that one fry last week since I noticed him floating up dead after I had done a trim. Since the fry were always spotted in the gravel, I didn't really think any were in the top few inches of the moss. (hit enter for Nolapete)
The bigger fry must be a survivor from right after I changed the tank over from a 20H to a 20L, so that was around 11/20. I'm thinking changing out the teeny tank so the fry don't have to far to surface was a big key here! (hit enter for Nolapete!!)
I turned the lights on manually this morning to catch the fish out of their beds!:grinyes: I saw the big fry. Today I can actually see his stomach has filled out since the other day. He (or she) is actually a baby fish now. And I was able to spot several other tiny fry from the eggs that hatched in late December. So those fry are about 10-14 days old and still extremely tinier than heck! I've begun to feed the tank heavier than before and am including frozen BBS twice a day. (hit enter for Nolapete)
And I am not trimming my taiwan moss anymore since I may actually have had a hand in losing that one fry last week since I noticed him floating up dead after I had done a trim. Since the fry were always spotted in the gravel, I didn't really think any were in the top few inches of the moss. (hit enter for Nolapete)
The bigger fry must be a survivor from right after I changed the tank over from a 20H to a 20L, so that was around 11/20. I'm thinking changing out the teeny tank so the fry don't have to far to surface was a big key here! (hit enter for Nolapete!!)
So cool! Sounds like your changes are working. I'd have thought at ~2 months old the big baby would look more like a little adult. Is it losing it's spottiness?
He still looks spotty. I'm thinking the spots down his side will turn into the black strip the pygmaeus have.
He is really starting to look like a big kid! Is it just hte one you have seen or hard to say now knowing with the dense planting?
