Fry Disapearing For No Reason!

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armaggedonx

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I posted the night i found the fry and there was approximatly 40-70 stuck to the glass, leaves, gravel, etc, and i looked this morning and ive counted 21.....could they be hiding in the gravel? or anywhere else? Also i have no access no daphnie or any liquid fry foods, are there any alternatives? Like could i mash up blood worm? The fry i have counted are still attatched to the glass and so on so are not free-swimming yet. The adults have been removed, theres no other fish in the tank and they cannot get close to the filter atall, please help.

Keith
 
1) What kind of fish is this? What else are in the tanks? Tank mates will eat babies, so will mothers of some species.
2) Fry die somtimes. The weak die off.
3) If you're not feeding right, fry will die. 2-3 times a day with small amounts of food.
4) If you're not cleaning up that food they aren't eating... fry will die. Water change every day or so.
 
They are Hujeta's fry. Nothing else is in the tank. Ive only had them 2 days and ive changed the water twice. Someone on the other post told me they don't eat untill they are free-swimming and at the moment they are not. Ive said i have no access to any types of fry food here because the stores are just plain crap to be honest! Could i get daphnie from the river?
 
Do you have a sponge filter in the tank? Originally when I started with those, I used a variety that wasnt heavily weighed down to the bottom (basically any non hydrosponge) and had hundreds of fry lost when they swam under the filter, got stuck and squashed or died slowly.
 
To make green water infusoria take a 2 quart jar, add a couple handfuls of hay or alfalfa, fill with dechlorinated water, add an airstone, and set in sunny windowsill for a couple days. This should produce a small crop of rotifers, etc. to use as food.
 
Egg yolk. Boil an egg, take out some yolk and crush it with a bit of water. It'll create a little cloud in the water that the fish will eat though.
 
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