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WooHoo!
By Jaymi from the Jaymi department, Section Diaries Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 01:30:39 PM PST Tags: (all tags)

I got fry! Yay!

Today I got home from school and was making the rounds, checking on my fish (this can take a while, I have 10 tanks) when I saw a pair of tiny little eyes staring at me.

I wasn't expecting any fry so soon, so my fry tank wasn't ready yet. I grabbed my empty 1 gallon tank out of the top of my closent, and filled it with water from my guppy tank, and started fishing around for fry.

They are sneaky little things! Much harder to catch than I imagined. I managed to catch 13 of the little boogers. I may try to find more later.

Right now I'm cleaning out a 5 gallon tank I found in my garage, and the fry will move into it once it is ready. Hopefully by the end of the week.

< everything going well now... who knows for how long. | I'm an aunt!! >

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WooHoo! | 11 comments (11 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: WooHoo! (none / 0) (#6)
by Nancy4Fishes on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 06:23:54 PM PST

whoa, there's a J-ME and a Jaymi...like there's a Scott Lockwood and an Uncle Scott...thats weird..

Re: WooHoo! (none / 0) (#5)
by J-ME on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 05:28:53 PM PST

Congrats on the fry.
Happy fish keeping :-)

Re: WooHoo! (none / 0) (#4)
by Nancy4Fishes on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 04:06:15 PM PST

oh, haha, gotcha. sorta forgot about that option... well congrats and good luck with them!

Re: WooHoo! (none / 0) (#3)
by ShannyG on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 03:36:18 PM PST

Congrats! New babies are always fun!

Re: WooHoo! (none / 0) (#1)
by Nancy4Fishes on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 03:21:31 PM PST

congrats, but don't you think the 5 gal should cycle for longer than a week? for fry, i would try 2 or 3. they should be fine in the 1 gal, if you do your water changes.

Re: WooHoo! (none / 0) (#2)
by Jaymi on Mon Apr 03, 2006 at 03:27:08 PM PST

I'm going to use water from my healthy cycled tanks. :)

Once you have as many tanks as me, waiting for them to cycle isn't really an issue, just wait for a water change and use that. :)

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Re: WooHoo! (none / 0) (#7)
by miskairal on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 01:18:09 AM PST

Also fry are so tiny to start with that there isn't much Ammonia produced from them. Each day their output will increase slowly and cause the corresponding bacteria numbers to increase with them. I find fry the perfect answer to cycling but I still do water changes and testing.
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That is a great question though. (none / 0) (#8)
by unclescott on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 11:23:48 AM PST

One can cover their bets on the new tank by also adding gravel (lifted in a net so all the mulm doesn't come with), plants and even a filter from an established tank. Plunking a few pond snails in for "left-over patrol" is not a bad thing either. :)

ATB!
unc

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Re: That is a great question though. (none / 0) (#9)
by Jaymi on Tue Apr 04, 2006 at 06:29:46 PM PST

I put a snail, and a couple plants from their tank in it.
I only have one snail for now, or I would have added more.

I did some more searching, and I'm up to 28 fry.

They are moving into the 5 gallon tank tomorrow :)

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Re: That is a great question though. (none / 0) (#10)
by miskairal on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 12:50:33 AM PST

Counting them isn't easy though, hey?
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Re: That is a great question though. (none / 0) (#11)
by Jaymi on Wed Apr 05, 2006 at 02:35:29 PM PST

I counted them as I put them in their tank, otherwise I probably couldn't have done it.

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