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Offline Steve

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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #15 on: January 26, 2014, 06:55:30 PM »
Thanks for the link, I started googling them and all the ones I saw were pretty pricey. That one on Amazon is very affordable I'll have to see about getting one.

Good idea on lining the bottom of the net Dan I never thought of that. I think I will do that just to get me by till I order one of those fry boxes.
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #16 on: January 26, 2014, 08:40:17 PM »
Amazon was where I got mine.
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2014, 12:17:38 AM »
Just updating...this is plain odd.

4 days ago I found more dead fry, I was down to only two. So I moved the OB I had in a 10g holding tank and I put the two remaining fry in that 10g. Thats was 4 days ago. The past few days they have been fine. Yesterday I was sitting there watching them for a bit.....of the two one was bigger and more dark colors on him, the other smaller and more pale. VERY healthy and fine looking on both yesterday though. Today I go down to feed the holding tanks.....the bigger of the two fry, dead with a white lump on his head. I don't get what is happening to this batch. Could it be some illness they have? because once isolated to the 10g I don't know what else would cause this death?
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #18 on: February 06, 2014, 05:00:53 PM »
Just lost the last one of the OB fry. He was perfectly normal at 7pm last night, I just went down to feed a minute ago and he was dead. I just don;t get what happened to that batch of OB fry, this one was the last one in the 10g by himself so no one picked on him, he was eating just fine yesterday, now he's dead like the rest. I noticed when I looked at his body after he died that he eyes looked like they were almost popping out for some reason? Never seen that before. Yet there are 35 mbamba fry in a breeder net, as well as a Y.lab holding in a breeder net (both in that same tank) and they are fine.

Could this batch of fry all had some illness or something perhaps?
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #19 on: February 06, 2014, 06:39:30 PM »
Still feeding the same foods?  My fry do fine on just flake.
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2014, 07:09:18 PM »
Combo of flake (ground between my fingers) twice a day, and a square of frozen baby brine shrimp on the days between once per day.
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2014, 07:57:08 PM »
How do you prepare the BBS?
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2014, 08:55:12 PM »
Quote from: Regalblue on February 06, 2014, 07:57:08 PM
How do you prepare the BBS?

Fava beans and a nice chianti.   Sorry...............couldn't help myself.
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2014, 09:20:39 PM »
Quote from: LoveTheFishies on February 06, 2014, 08:55:12 PM
Quote from: Regalblue on February 06, 2014, 07:57:08 PM
How do you prepare the BBS?

Fava beans and a nice chianti.   Sorry...............couldn't help myself.
No Jambalaya?
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #24 on: February 06, 2014, 10:51:48 PM »
  I don't. I just pop them out the tray and drop the cube in for them. Is that wrong?
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #25 on: February 06, 2014, 10:58:10 PM »
Better to thaw it in tank water then add it.
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #26 on: February 06, 2014, 11:14:44 PM »
Quote from: Steve on February 06, 2014, 10:51:48 PM
  I don't. I just pop them out the tray and drop the cube in for them. Is that wrong?
Quote from: danielratti on February 06, 2014, 10:58:10 PM
Better to thaw it in tank water then add it.
Yes
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #27 on: February 06, 2014, 11:15:12 PM »
What? lol...What do you mean bud?  I'm missing what your are saying maybe?
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #28 on: February 06, 2014, 11:15:46 PM »
You mean thaw it in water "then" add it?
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Re: Is it common to lose fry?
« Reply #29 on: February 06, 2014, 11:45:24 PM »
Sorry thaw it in some water from the tank then add it back. Generally I use a old fish food container the do it.
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