Is my fish holding?

[L~C~G]

If you plan on keeping the fry and have put her in a tank by herself there is nothing left for you to do but keep the water clean and enjoy what is about to happen! She will handle the rest.

Do not try to strip her eggs, you do not have the experience to do it and there is really no point if she is isolated.

She will occasionally open her mouth a bit to flush fresh water over the eggs. if you are paying attention and look into her mouth at this stage you will see a bunch of yellow eggs and in a few days the yellow eggs will turn into grey wrigglers.

She will eventually get to a point where she lets them swim out of her mouth to feed. With a bit of patience you will get to see that.

Once the fry swim around freely and dont return to the mothers mouth you can return her to the show tank and raise ur fry.

 

[zebvance]

Her throat looks sma but still looks to he holding. I'm guessing she swallowed some of the eggs. I can't tell what stage she is out. She won't open her bounty and I can see through her throat with a flash light or anything. She is just to dark.

 

[L~C~G]

Patience dude!

Sometimes she will re - position the eggs in her mouth and it will look like she is no longer holding and then when you look again her pouch seems full again.

If it is her first clutch it may be a small number of eggs and dont take much space in her mouth right now but as they develop they will take up more space and it will become more obvious that she is clutching.

 

[zebvance]

WEll I woke up this morning and the fish was dead. I put her in a ten gallon by her self a few days ago and seemed to be doing fine. No signs of sickness. The water tested 0 on nitrates nitrites chlorine. she let go of the eggs and they are floating around the tank. Anybody have any idea as to what may of caused this? The eggs are all a greyish brown color. If i had to guess prob around 15-20 of them. This is the first fish to ever die on me. BOO!

 

[mike dunagan]

First fish to ever die? Wow, it happens. What was the filtration on the tank?

 

[zebvance]

I just put her in a 10 gallon when I saw whee was holding. Had a tetra filter in there rated for a 10-15 gallon tank that I had laying around.

 

[mike dunagan]

bacteria added to start the tank cycling?

 

[zebvance]

bacteria added to start the tank cycling?

WEll I used water out of the 240 but now I realize that the water doesnt hold much bateria so Im thinking it was a cause of a ammonia spike from not enough BB. But I dont have a ammonia test kit. Just test kits for everything else so Im going to pick one u[ this weekend when I got to Houston to get a new rusty and a couple of other fish.