Fry Moving Advice?

PepperedGary · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject: Fry Moving Advice?

Hello all:

My paleatus fry are now 11 days old. They're active, healthy, and feeding like little piglets.

I currently have 106 of them in a small plastic tank 8" wide 6" tall and 6" deep with an airstone. They're not overcrowded yet...since I've only filled it about half as deep as I can.

I've set up another (empty) platic container that is 12" across, 6" tall and 8" deep with a sponge filter for when they get bigger.

Based on the description of what facilities (or lack thereof) I have at my disposal...at what point would you all start tranferring them? A certain age? Size?

Thanks!

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Kana3 · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject:

I hope someone else has some good information for you, 'cos my methodology can be fairly haphazard. Your Cory's are about to the stage that I move to the next enclosure. But I've never had that size population at this stage. Factors that influence me are:

Are they large enough not to escape through the mesh of the next enclosure?
Are they large enough to manage the size of food that I feed in the next enclosure? (you may think this is strange, but the construction of my enclosures warrants ensuring that food does not also escape through the mesh/circulation holes, starving the Fry).
Are they large enough to reach the food in a larger enclosure?
Is there another batch of eggs on the way, that need to go in THIS enclosure.

Sufficient food, waste elimination, cleanliness, are your main concerns. I think that a lot of this raising fry stuff is judgement. I'd love to see a pic of all those babies.

PepperedGary · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 1:31 pm Post subject:

Kana3 wrote:

1) Are they large enough not to escape through the mesh of the next
enclosure?
2) Are they large enough to manage the size of food that I feed in the
next enclosure? (you may think this is strange, but the construction of
my enclosures warrants ensuring that food does not also escape
through the mesh/circulation holes, starving the Fry).
3) Are they large enough to reach the food in a larger enclosure?
Is there another batch of eggs on the way, that need to go in THIS
enclosure.

4)I'd love to see a pic of all those babies.

Kana:

Remember - I have no floating enclosure - so there are no vents or mesh. I have no air flow through them - I just change the water all the time. So far I've not lost a single fry. They're only two weeks old...maybe I shouldn't celebrate just yet.

Anyway...maybe this will help you get a picture of the space I'm working with. Here's my little hobbyist hatchery area...

Here are the containers they're in right now...

And per your request...here is a picture of the babies taken today...

Now that you've seen the setup...what do you think? Should I be thinking about moving the 106 to the larger one - or leave it be for a week or two?

Anyone else?

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Kana3 · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:22 pm Post subject:

Wow! Another illegal distillery!

He wrote:

Remember - I have no floating enclosure

That is why I'd wrote:

Factors that influence me!

You do 50% water change per day, don't you? Are both your tanks, and change water at room temp?

You could proably go another week or so. They don't look too crowded. I had a growth spurt at about 4-5 weeks, that's probaly what you need to watch for.

You've obviously got Meth. Blue in the left tank. What's the yellow stuff in the water on the right? (Didn't get it confused with your Bed-pan?) - I've just realised, you've got all this stuff in a cupboard!

I think you've been doing really well so far!

PepperedGary · Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:32 pm Post subject:

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You do 50% water change per day, don't you? Are both your tanks, and change water at room temp?

You could proably go another week or so. They don't look too crowded. I had a growth spurt at about 4-5 weeks, that's probaly what you need to watch for.

You've obviously got Meth. Blue in the left tank. What's the yellow stuff in the water on the right? (Didn't get it confused with your Bed-pan?) - I've just realised, you've got all this stuff in a cupboard!

I think you've been doing really so far!

More than 50% at least once a day....usually 2 hours or so after every feeding.

No meth blue with the fry at all.

The yellowish tint you see is part the shade of plastic and a bit of blackwater extract as my water is hard & it's also in the breeding tank.

The cabinet is one of those office storage ones - like you can get at an Office Depot. I had it here so put it to use.

The little freaks are spawning again right now....I'm at about 50 eggs removed so far. Sheesh.[/quote]

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