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I keep loosing fly. What's wrong? |
| Sean - Another possible explanation is suffocation. It helps to have slow air flow to break the surface tension of the water. At less than two weeks the labyrinth organ is still developing. Fry rely on the oxygen exchange through the water surface to "breathe". If you're not already doing this, add it to your list of things to do. Aside from that, make sure that the tank remains clean. Try not to overfeed. Use aged water for your water changes that is as close as possible in temperature and chemistry to the water you're using in the fry tank. - Dec 12, 2000 |
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caprirooster - Have you tested you water parameters? It could be the water - ammonia poisoning and other bad stuff. Try looking at this statelite club - http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/bettawaterquality If you can get access to a water test kit that should help determine what is causing the deaths. If at all possible try siphoning uneaten food and the betta excretment (sp?). Add back the same amount of water that is the same temperature, pH and such. Remember to put some salt (1 teaspoon to 5 gallons, aquarisol and tap water conditioner). - Dec 12, 2000 |
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bettasvancouver - If it is a very large spawn in a tank yes i have found you do tend to loose a few due to over crowding. But I would check the water and up water changes. As with any fish in large numbers a tank can only provide a healthy inviroment for a certain amount of fish. I have had spawns in devided tanks one side the fry are fine the other side can loose some I also think it has a lot to do with the genetics of the fish some are stronger than others. I am talking of my own experiences but I have found large spawns I do loose a fair amount some times, where smaller spawns I don’t loose any or very few (of course if they are lousy fish you are spawning they all survive and you are left with 300 fish you do not know what to do with). I also find in larger spawns you get the huge difference in fry sizes within the spawns. Where smaller spawn generally they keep up with each other size wise. My feelings on large spawn if you loose a few they must be weak anyway and them dying out is a natural form of culling. I try not to have large spawns now and take the female out as soon as there are about 50 eggs sometimes even only 20. I find this way I have healthy large fry. - Dec 12, 2000 |
| Hans - next time you may want to split the spawn into 2 or more tanks/containers during the early stage if you really wanna play safe and ensure that at least SOME (tanks) of your fry survive through the odds.... add aged water to these separate tanks little by little over the days after splitting. i did that myself when i had problems with my fry dying on me slowly daily...and on various spawns, sometimes dun understand why either. (bery kia-su way, but i was at wits end then...) for me, i think it's the poor water condition that leads to bacteria/parasites infection (velvet, etc.), thus causing me to loose fry slowly. having different tanks gives me more "chances" and if ALL tanks kanna same ill fate, then maybe it's the gene (weak), or something u do to with all the tanks (maybe same food, share same infected nets, etc.) that is wrong. Take it as a controlled environment for u to learn/find out what's wrong with the way you raise fry - if u have the patience and don't mind maintaining a few more tanks. also, i find that if you can grow your fry to be a healthy size after a week old, then u are quite safe from having disease hit them. Like JJ said, these "disease" (in the form of bacterias/parasites) are ALWAYS in the water...only when the fish/fry is weak or stressed that they loose the immunity to combat them. Healthy fry means they grow FAST, and they are eating a lot to grow. For me, microworms microworms microworms....feed'em that as long as i see the tank bottom is "clean". At some point in time, maybe 5 or 6 days old, you'll know you have healthy fries when they eat more than u thought it's enough....and they grow...and swim around more. feed AT LEAST twice a day, but not foul the water. - Jan 31, 2001 |
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