I'm going to lose all my fry

[Tempestuousfury]

Yesterday I closed the lid on my tank and the breeding trap flipped over and dumped the fry into the tank.

I put 8 of the fry back in, but around 12 are still in the tank. Then I saw a black widow tetra kill one, but it had a hard time downing it. I had to go to bed before I could see what happened to the body.

So, I ended up moving the gourami to make sure he didn't eat all the fry and I moved him to the 10 gallon with the female.

I then moved my male platy, male guppy, and female guppy to the 55. I had moved the cory beforehand to the 55.

I just wanted to vent and ask if this was ok. Also, I placed 2 ugly, neon caves in the tank as protection for the tank.

 

[ladynaoko]

don't panic - some may still survive.
My platy fry were born in my comunity tank and were never moved - still got quite a few swimming around in there over a month on.

 

[Mesome]

You may be fine. My guppies and platties have babies in my tank all the time! None ever get eaten....although I wouldn't mind it too much since I'll be out of room once the babies' babies have babies.....

It's a 10 gallon with 2 guppies, 2 platties, 1 balloon belly molly, god only knows how many babies, and about 150 snails that breed faster then the guppies....

 

[Tolak]

The fry will probably be fine as long as they have a place to hide. My platys have been breeding in a community tank to the point that I am probably going to trade some in at the lfs this weekend.

Tolak

 

[Tempestuousfury]

There are plenty of places for them to hide, but they wander out because they think they are still safe in their breeder! I saved 8 and there are 6 swimming around.

My dad saw four get eaten, I saw one get eaten, and my little brother claims he saw 1 get eaten. So, all I can hope is that the fry wisen up.

I really didn't want the fry, but I didn't want them to get eaten (not by fish that don't need to eat live fish!)

Oh well. Let's just hope that one survives.

 

[gadazobe]

I've never used a breeding net and have been supplying my lfs with sailfin mollies for ages and ages. If there are enough hiding places the strongest will survive.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

It turns out that the six fry that I had have all survived. None of the other fish are going after them, so either they know they can't eat them because they're too big or they don't want to. I'll see how it goes.

 

[Cheese Specialist]

It turns out that the six fry that I had have all survived. None of the other fish are going after them, so either they know they can't eat them because they're too big or they don't want to. I'll see how it goes.

Cool! Glad to read that it's working out

 

[Ken]

I would use a net and remove them.

Some may survive with adult fish, but if you move them to a safe tank all will likely survive.


I keep two tanks set up just for fry, one for the smallest newborns, and one for older babies. I enjoy these tanks as much as much as my big tanks.

 

[Tropjunky]

well this is where narure will decide what happens as it's a case of survival of the fittest and the good thing is the strongest of the batch will be lift thus improving the gene pool.

A cruel but interesting concept, natural selection.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I'd already netted 8 fry, and I had neither the patience nor the desire to take an hour or so to get a handful of fry back in the net breeder. I'll end up giving most if not all away anyways, so it's not really that bad.

I lost one more. However, I had thought I had lost two, but another one showed up out of nowhere the day after.