Rescape - Help Needed!

[Leedsboi86]

Hey everyone.

I'm wanting to rescape my 71 Litre tank.
Problem is I have 2 Kribs in there with there spawn.
The fry are all free swimming but are only 2-3 weeks old so stay very close to parents.
I really wanna sort the tank out as it looks abit of a mess.

What can I do?
I don't want parents to eat there babies but I also wanna get tank sorted.

Thanks

 

[3ndl3r]

would probably be best to leave them be for the time being. Once the fry have left the parents, then do it.

James

 

[Wills]

yeah I'm in a similar situation waiting for the fry to get big enough to take to the store then going to transfer parents and other tank inhabitants into buckets and trim/rearrange the tank - going to use as an opportunity to give the substrate a really good going over as well.

 

[Leedsboi86]

So no way to do it now?
Really need to get the tank sorted and it's gonna be awhile before the fry can leave,
they are still very small.

 

[3ndl3r]

So no way to do it now?

Unless you have another tank you can move the whole lot to. Im afraid so.

James

 

[Wills]

the danger in doing it now would be that you would loose some fry and swapping the fish around can stress them quite a lot - although you could trim plants and clean off algae as normal while they are in the tank. But I wouldnt move rocks and wood around or uproot plants

 

[Leedsboi86]

No plants in at the moment.
I was gonna order some.
I have some caves and stones I wanna add to tank though.