Neither of us are using grow out tanks, they were parent raised to a point and then put in a breeder box in the parent tank.
Mine weren't supposed to breed right now at all, they were supposed to wait until we moved to the new house so a lot of the first fry became snacks for the other fish in the tank. Right when I was about to move the last 25 or so over to a grow out tank my other female brought out her wigglers. Thw two females had their fry on the opposite sides of the tank when I left to pick up a breeder box and when I got home the smaller female with the older fry had beat up the bigger female a little and stole the new fry from her. I could only find about 5 of the older fry after that and now I'm down to 4. Of the newest batch of fry I had about 50 wigglers it looked like in the morning, and after they were adopted by the other female it looked like less. The tank hadn't been vacuumed since the end of March and was looking bad so I siphoned all the fry I could and got them in the breeder box mainly so I could actually clean the tank finally. After I got it clean and rearranged I dug a few holes and let them settle in again. Somehow the smaller female found some smaller fry that made it through the cleaning process and corraled them into the hole and is watching them again. I am guessing she has 5-10 in there. The ones I have in the breeder box now seem to be ok, I gave them a plastic plant they has algae and some debris on it to graze from and feeding ground flake. When I finally get this house finished and move they will have a 35 gallon grow out tank too and the trio will have a 125 finally.
Mine weren't supposed to breed right now at all, they were supposed to wait until we moved to the new house so a lot of the first fry became snacks for the other fish in the tank. Right when I was about to move the last 25 or so over to a grow out tank my other female brought out her wigglers. Thw two females had their fry on the opposite sides of the tank when I left to pick up a breeder box and when I got home the smaller female with the older fry had beat up the bigger female a little and stole the new fry from her. I could only find about 5 of the older fry after that and now I'm down to 4. Of the newest batch of fry I had about 50 wigglers it looked like in the morning, and after they were adopted by the other female it looked like less. The tank hadn't been vacuumed since the end of March and was looking bad so I siphoned all the fry I could and got them in the breeder box mainly so I could actually clean the tank finally. After I got it clean and rearranged I dug a few holes and let them settle in again. Somehow the smaller female found some smaller fry that made it through the cleaning process and corraled them into the hole and is watching them again. I am guessing she has 5-10 in there. The ones I have in the breeder box now seem to be ok, I gave them a plastic plant they has algae and some debris on it to graze from and feeding ground flake. When I finally get this house finished and move they will have a 35 gallon grow out tank too and the trio will have a 125 finally.
