Got Some Fry

[whiteley]

Ok people, got my first fry, as it happens i have just compleated cycling my hospital tank (cheated abit as i put some water from my big tank in, but its all fine, put my fry in there today, now is their a way to tell what type of fish they are? i have guppies, mollies and platy in there, platys are wag tails (orange with black tail) i know most come out white! (or those have anyway)



Managed to save 11 of them, which aint too bad, 3 hours of fishing lol! really hard to see, did not think they where really that small!

 

[bubblesburst80]

congratulations on ur first fry!

xXx

 

[bubblej17]

congrats on the fry as for thelling them apart you may just have to wait a few weeks

 

[orange shark]

nice one!

 

[whiteley]

congrats on the fry as for thelling them apart you may just have to wait a few weeks

well their 2 days old now, and i can see like a red colourappearing around the stomach area, only slightly though!

 

[afishdude]

thats just them developing more. you will see alot of changes in the next few days

 

[whiteley]

thats just them developing more. you will see alot of changes in the next few days

well i will be watching em!

 

[ktclayt]

Congrats

I'm anxiously waiting for my guppies to give birth, (first time fishing mum LOL)

 

[lilfishie]

if they are molly there colour will be solid where as platy and guppy fry are semi transparent. congrats on them whatever they turn out to be

 

[afishdude]

cheated abit as i put some water from my big tank in

just to let you no, you dont cycle the tank you cycle the filter so adding water from the main tank didnt help one bit. 6-8 weeks to cycle fully

 

[theotheragentm]

Yup. The water column contains next to no bacteria to process bioload. The bacteria is on surfaces. If you moved your filter over or some substrate over, you would get some help with the cycle. Otherwise water is next to useless for helping a cycle a long unfortunately.