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!@
WHY DID MY FRY DIE????
- Thread starter Piranhanick
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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...
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...
After hatching, I keep my fry diets simple for the first month....BBS, aka baby brine shrimp, is the staple I feed my fry within the first month or month and a half....I stay away from beef heart.....Most likely the ammonia in your small growout was too high and killed off the fry.....Try using a 55 or 60 when hatching out fry...Heck, I use 2-3 60g's for every batch.....Stick a sponge on whatever filter intake you are using, this prevents any fry from being sucked up....40-50% water changes everyday will cut down on deaths too....Keep the temp at 82-84....
