Minnows - Partial Success!

[philrag11]

Hi,

I've had White Cloud Minnows for around 3 weeks now - one of them died a week after being put in the tank.....was never really active, hiding alot in the plants and then I couldn't find him and discovered he was in the filter. Not sure what happened.

Since then the other 5 have looked happy enough until recently one of the females started acting the same way. Just staying in one spot and not really swimming much - just the occasional flick of her fins and a short swim every now and then. I've managed to get a photo but as far as I can see there are no visible signs of disease - anyone got any ideas?

I've since noticed around 5 tiny fry clinging to the glass and a few free swimming although I don't have any floating plants so not sure how long they'll survive. Will try and get a breeding mop tomorrow to give them half a chance.

Water quality is good - ammonia 0, nitrites 0 and nitrates around 20ppm and have been doing a 30% water change every week. Temp around 74C and pH around 7.4

Any comments would be appreciated

Thanks

Phil

 

[Caprichoso]

Everything looks and sounds good to me. Congrats on the fry too. Don't be too worried if they are not always super active. I have a school of 11 of them and many of them like to stay in one place. I find that the males are much more active than the females as well. If you notice that she segregates herself a lot from the group, then something may be wrong but for now just observe and wait, not much else you can do.