breeding peacock bass-need help with the fry!!!

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arowfan

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Hello everyone, so my peacock bass successfully laid eggs, and they hatched this past Friday-
here's the sucky part-:cry:
They must have hatched overnight on Thursday when I noticed them in my 300 gallon-2 fluval fx5's and a decent power-head later...I found about 50 of the fry Friday morning...
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So since I knew they were breeding, I decided to make a nursery tank about 2 weeks-but when I checked the levels the day I found the fry-the tank didn't completely cycle-however it wasn't too too bad-so I quickly drained the nursery tank 50% and filled it up with the parents water...tested it, and it was fine (since I knew the tank wasn't fully cycled, I made (2) 20% wc since Friday with the parents water) so I syphoned the fry into the nursery tank and everything was looking pretty good-had the tank temp almost pretty much the same-maybe a degree off or so...feed them 3 times a day frozen baby brine shrimp...and everyday since Friday I noticed a couple of them dying...today they are all dead :(
2 things I also want to note: that I did notice the ammonia peak to under 1ppm, and that I think on Sunday I added a little PRIME to the nursery tank-not sure if this can be used w/ fry or not-didnt say anything on the bottle about using caution or anything...***correction, one more thing to add***there was baby brine shrimp leftover on the floor of the tank-what should be done about this-can someone please tell me what you guys do with this situation thanks!***
Please can anyone with experience in either breeding peacock bass or just fry in general tell me what went wrong...
Thanks in advance!!!
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I think you are on the right track for the most part. Try using 100% water from the parents tank and keep the temperature constant. Just siphon the water just before transferring the fry. The other thing is that you absolutely must feed live brine shrimp. Also, water changes every day. Give that a try and you will greatly increase your survival rate.
 
ok that is something i will do-also, should i move the rock with the eggs on it or wait for them to hatch? lastly, when i feed the baby brine shrimp...there tends to be a decent amount leftover on the floor of the nursery tank, should i try to carefully vacum it up or dont really bother...
thanks so much man for the info...appreciate it a lot!!!
john
ps...i read that frozen baby brine is ok-thats what i've been using so far-i can't find live around here...
 
I moved the rock b/c the eggs didn't hatch in the tank with the parents the first few spawns. You will probably get more fry, but the parents may get upset if you pull the eggs that they are tending to. I have read about an Oscar killing its mate when the eggs were pulled. As far as the shrimp on the bottom I would vacuum it b/c they didn't eat it the first time around they are unlikely to go after it after it sits for a few hours.
 
arowfan;4951893; said:
anyone?!?!?!?!?!
come on guys, I need advice really fast cause she just dropped eggs again this morning
I NEED ADVICE LIKE YESTERDAY ASAP PLEASE!!!!
thanks,
john
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Always siphon the baby brine shrimp leftovers out.........The remaining shrimp causes potential ammonia spikes.....
 
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