WHY DID MY FRY DIE

[Piranhanick]

My piranhas recently spawned and i moved the eggs to a 29 gallon tank to hatch. It seemed as though hundreds hatched and were successfully alive for a week almost ten days. All the sudden i woke up this morning and found most all of them missing or dead? I was keeping the tank at 82.5 to 84.0 degrees, and feeding them daphnia and a mixture of beefheart and flake food crushend up twice a day. i had moss and live plants in there for them. I was using an undergravel filter with medium to small gravel . . . the tank was established. Was there just too much bio-load ie..... waste in the tank was it too hot was the tank too big ... was i feeding them properly? Where did i go wrong????? Please help!@

 

[Joshy]

As posted in the Piranha forum:

That is really unfortunate!

Check the water stats a.s.a.p.
See if there is anything unusual, too high or too low in the water.

Were the fry actually been eating, did you whiteness them eating? If not, they could have both starved while the water quality becomes poorer with wasted food.

Regardless of the problem, at least you have a proven pair of breeding piranhas now… they WILL breed again as long as you continue to replicate the conditions they breed in initially...

 

[RuXPiN]

dang man, that sucks, this i know for sure, successfull breeders have fed the fry brine shrimp, maybe gear up for that so your ready next time

 

[WyldFya]

My guess is that the food you fed was too large for the fry to eat. BB would be a safer bet.

 

[importracer]

BBS,BBS,BBS......Well at keast for the first month, month and half....The digestive system is still too imature to take in beef heart(right?).....Definately crushed flakes and pellets should be added after the first solid BBS month....

 

[mothernature]

I feel your pain!

I just lost 50 baby ghost shrimp. I let the water quality get bad and then never did anything.. Im stupid, I know..

hey, if you get some fry , I will gladly buy some. Good luck... {Would they eat
greenwater\infusoria?]