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We Have Babies!
Since we have a bigger house now we are able to set my 55 gallon tank back up. So we cleaned it, filled it with water, heated it, filtered the water out and got fish last Thursday. Well, we woke up today and we have two baby fishies. I got my little baby net out and put them in it! I'm so excited babies! No matter what breed, babies are always so cute! They are so tiny. :love:
But I do have a question, do I feed them baby fish food or can I just crush the flakes up really small? I had babies once before and didn't have the net. Basically I woke up one morning and saw the babies, went to work picked up the baby net, but by the time I got home the babies were eaten by the other fish. I felt so horrible. But because of that I learned to always be prepared, but never actually had babies to take care of so I'm not really sure what to do. Any help would be appreciated!
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Congrats on your fishy grandkids! I don't know anything about fish other than how to kill them by accident so I'll leave that to the pros.
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Aren't there any fishy people on tonight to help with the babies???
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Hi Jesses,
congratulations on the babies! Way to go! What kind of fish are they? I assume livebearers of some kind. If so, then crushed up fine flakes will be perfect. That is what I have always fed baby platies and guppies and mollies. You could put the babies in a floating net/breeder trap/or tupperware container till they grow large enough to not be eaten. One concern I have though is that you just set up the tank and added fish right away. Are you aware of the nitrogen cycle? Please, read this article, so you dont end up with a tank full of dead fish. What kind of fish did you get and how many? What kind of filtration is on the tank? Do you have a master test kit, or tests for ammonia, nitrItes, and nitrAtes? Did you add water conditioner prior to adding fish? If so, what kind? Thanks! Good Luck! http://faq.thekrib.com/begin-cycling.html |
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Sneakypete, thanks for the info with the babies. We have mollies, swags, algae eaters, neons, stuff like that (easy stuff ). In total about 15 fish. As for the tank. We didn't just fill it up and put the fish in it. It was about a two week process before we put the fish in it. I went through all the testing with a master kit, the conditioner, and as for filters I actually have two 30 gallon filters on the tank (one on each side). I've had this fish tank for about 10 years (six years straight and three moves) and just set it up again after a 4 year break. Once we find our digital camera (still looking after this move) I'll take some pictures and post them up!!!
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A 2 week process?
Did you do a fishless cycle? What are "swags" ? what kind of "algae eaters"? |
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