Cleaning Fry Tank

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Hello, my EBAs bred and I removed most of the free swimming fry and have them in a 10 gallon tank with sponge filter. I'm feeding them Hikari First Bites soaked in water. That said how should I go about cleaning the tank? There's some left over food on the bottom but if I siphon it the babies will come along with it. Any other advice would be appreciated.
 
markstrimaran said:
A large turkey baster. It resembles a eye dropper, but holds about 50 ml. A short piece of 3/8" clear tubing stuck on the end. Will lengthen it and keep your hands dry.
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Thanks Mark. Will do.

Here's another tough one. The tanks are located at my office. I work Monday through Friday so no one is here to feed the over the weekend. Any thoughts there? The fry are just shy of 2 weeks old now.
 
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The small square box on top is an algae scrubber. It is constantly sluffing off algae, into the top fry tank. Alot of Dafnia aka water fleas. That the fry eat.
The lower part is a 30 gallon juvenile tank, it is self cleaning. The overflow pipe, in the back ground. Picks up waste , off the bottom.
Uses the same water as the display tank.1478207273496.jpg .
Other than that, the auto fish feeder, or live food, dapnia, routifers.
I have algae eating African cichilds. If I go away for a week. I put an entire algae scrubber green screen in the tank. I have done this with 1 day old fry before, I stripped a female at 3.5 weeks. They were all still alive when I came home.
 
markstrimaran said:
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The small square box on top is an algae scrubber. It is constantly sluffing off algae, into the top fry tank. Alot of Dafnia aka water fleas. That the fry eat.
The lower part is a 30 gallon juvenile tank, it is self cleaning. The overflow pipe, in the back ground. Picks up waste , off the bottom.
Uses the same water as the display tank.View attachment 1212485 .
Other than that, the auto fish feeder, or live food, dapnia, routifers.
I have algae eating African cichilds. If I go away for a week. I put an entire algae scrubber green screen in the tank. I have done this with 1 day old fry before, I stripped a female at 3.5 weeks. They were all still alive when I came home.
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Wow! That's quite the setup you have there.
 
A while back I had 2 batches of fry at the same time. It was taking more time than I had, tending to them.
I have found the hobby much more enjoyable. When maintenance is simplified. I once used to pack water in 5 gallon buckets during water changes. Now I only open and close valves.
 
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You got that right Mark. A couple years back I added drip systems to my 2 largest tanks and that made the hobby so much more enjoyable and the fish so much better off as well. Do you have a thread on how you made your setup?
 
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Give me the low down! DIY masters chime in!! Mostly scattered. Lol I am still building. Got a 75 gallon, and a 10 gallon swimming pool filter to build sumps, out of. Sitting in the shop.
Some time this winter I might consider a thread. If work is slow.
 
jandb said:
Hello, my EBAs bred and I removed most of the free swimming fry and have them in a 10 gallon tank with sponge filter. I'm feeding them Hikari First Bites soaked in water. That said how should I go about cleaning the tank? There's some left over food on the bottom but if I siphon it the babies will come along with it. Any other advice would be appreciated.[/QUOTE

I actually use an airline hose to clean the bottom of my fry tank and siphon the water off into a small bucket. I have total control of the stop and start of the flow by putting my finger over the end that is in the bucket. If any fry are sucked up, they are easily put back in the fry tank (I check closely before I dump the water)
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