Today is water change day, but my fish fry appeared in my tank today as well. Should I continue with the water change? should I do things differently? Should I be changing water more often, now that there are fry in the tank?
Best way to do water changes with fry in the tank?
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I've seen it done a few ways, carefully with a siphon, not sucking up anything off the bottom, just water. Also seen a nylon over the siphon, a tennis ball (I think) over the siphon and if your tank is small enough just take a pitcher and scoop water out. Just be careful and do like 10-20% water changes every day or two
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When my angels were at that stage, I did 50% water changes twice weekly, and I just watched carefully to make sure I wasn't sucking any of them up (which wasn't hard for me, since the parents kept most of them coralled into a corner whenever I'd change the water), then I checked the buckets I siphoned into, before dumping them. Once they got a bit bigger, I just started holding a net over the end of the siphon to prevent them from getting sucked up.
If the fry arent free swimming dont siphen da gravel just change the water . Once they are swimming use a net to keep the parents from biting you and rounding up fry so they dobt get siphened.
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what do you mean by free swimming? The fry have been swimming around, but the parents have them all rounded up. Sometimes they swim off and the parents have to chase after them. is it possible they weren't born today like i thought, and I just noticed them today?
Unless you're breeding livebearers, they were probably born at least 4-5 days ago. And "free-swimming" just means that they are no longer attached to something (The fry can't swim until they develop fins, which takes several days. Until then, they remain stuck to whatever object their parents decide to place them on).
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free swimming is when they fry develop their fins and start swimming if they are already swimming the fry are about a week or two old already so you probably had fry from your other batch and the parents hid them from you.