Glod
Fishaholic
Ok, so my dad went with cycling his new tank with fish. There's 9 platys in there (4 boys 5 girls - lfs couldn't even sex them right!) at the moment and it's been running for nearly a month. We did lose one platy girl last week tho unfortunately So far the ammonia is heading back to 0, the nitrites are spiking tho and there is some nitrate when I test at the moment. Doing regular water changes of about 20-25% every 5 days or so seems to be mitigating the worst of the situation.
Anyway today I was doing the traditional fish rollcall at feeding time making sure they are all hale and hearty when I noticed a couple of small snails that must have been on the plants or something. So, as I lifted the tank lid off to reach in for the snails something small moved in a corner of the tank. A small fish baby! The tank is planted, tho not very densely but between plants and rocks and a couple of logs there are dozens of hiding places for the adults, let alone the fry. So, I hunted around some more and spotted some more fry hiding in around one of the logs.
Obviously the conditions can't be termed ideal since the tank is about half way through cycling. I don't really have a spare tank at the moment since I am fishless cycling the small one for a betta to be added in a few weeks. Do you reckon the babies have a fighting chance in the big tank ? As you can see it's pretty spacious for so few fish. Should I go and try to get some fry food ? Or just let nature take it's course and let them take their chances ?
What do you think ?
Anyway today I was doing the traditional fish rollcall at feeding time making sure they are all hale and hearty when I noticed a couple of small snails that must have been on the plants or something. So, as I lifted the tank lid off to reach in for the snails something small moved in a corner of the tank. A small fish baby! The tank is planted, tho not very densely but between plants and rocks and a couple of logs there are dozens of hiding places for the adults, let alone the fry. So, I hunted around some more and spotted some more fry hiding in around one of the logs.
Obviously the conditions can't be termed ideal since the tank is about half way through cycling. I don't really have a spare tank at the moment since I am fishless cycling the small one for a betta to be added in a few weeks. Do you reckon the babies have a fighting chance in the big tank ? As you can see it's pretty spacious for so few fish. Should I go and try to get some fry food ? Or just let nature take it's course and let them take their chances ?
What do you think ?