Stirling Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Hi I've just had my first attempt at spawning anything other than guppies or kribs. I decided to give my odessas a try since they were spawning in my main tank. I figured I'd get no more than 50 fry but at a rough guess I'd say there are at least 200! I'm feeding baby brine shrimp (2x daily) and small amounts of egg yolk (1x daily) and they seem to be doing OK - 10 days old now. I'd really appreciate advice on 3 questions and any other suggestions. When can I wean them onto flake and what's the best way to do a water change? I'm worried about them getting sucked up through the tube or generally stressed. Also what's a good time to move them to a larger tank? There will be too many for the tank they are in pretty soon. Thanks for your help in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billaney Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Congrats on the spawning and i know just where your coming from excpt i have probably closer to 500 , mine are now aboutn 3 months old and doing very nicely, now for your questions. 1, if you crusg the flake up VERY fine you can start at about 3 weeks i found without any fear of any great numbers , introduce it along with the other food then stop the egg yolk, and later the brine shrimp too if you want too but they will love that even as adults. 2,I do very slow/low pressure syphoning into a bucket through a fine mess net so any babies get gentlely dropped into the net then returned asap t the tank but if your careful not many get sucked up. 3, i'd leave them to grow there until there at least 1cm then i'd say pretty safe to move them but do it it stages, say 50 one day leave it a week ,then 50 more till there over moved over , gives the filter time to cope with the extra numbers. Good luck there very pretty fish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stirling Posted February 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Awesome. Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Hopefully they are in a BBT and you have snails in with them to clean up surplus food before any pollution takes place. When syphoning, I use an air line hose and into an icecream container with a net in that water, that way there is no drop and they aren't out of the water either. Near enough to what Paul said Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stirling Posted February 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Thanks for thesiphone suggestion. Yep there are plenty of snails. BBT? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 Bare Bottom Tank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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