3 Week Old Fry

[LilyRose Tank]

took these photos today, they are looking more like fish than fry

 

[fatheadminnow]

Very nice!

-FHM

 

[biokid101]

only 3 weeks! they look like 2 month old fry compared to mine.

 

[LilyRose Tank]

Really? What are you feeding them? I give a mix of 3x liquifry2, 1x flake....finely crushed, and they also have access to algae wafers, and also brine shrimp in jelly twice a week. these were born 13th feb. my yellow ones were born 11th and are smaller by about 1-2mm but maybe thats because darker colours always look bigger to me. my other fry born 20th feb are half the size

I guess the Daddy of the darker ones was a heavier build. Just guessing, and the yellow babies mom was smaller than the darker ones. I did kep them in a hatchery for most of their life so the easy food probably helped. for their safety they were in hatchery as they were being eaten, so i caught them for a while longer, they were released into maintank, to endure correct whitespot treatment as they weren't getting better

 

[OldMan47]

Are those all platies Jayne? They are looking quite good to me. You must be doing something right.

 

[LilyRose Tank]

yes OM47 they are all platies, and they are gorg....I think I see a growth in them every day. the larger ones are only 11-12mm or at least thats how they seem. and they are getting bolder too, even the smaller ones. At the rate I'm loosing the adults I'll probably only have these little guys left before long. But they are doing well considering they arebeing treated for whitespot too. only a few of them have spots now, so hopefully not long to go before I can put my carbon cartridge back in and see if my cycle kicks back in again. x...any difference in looking after guppies and platies, I have 7 guppies in the 64L tank now too, I know its overloaded but I'm double filtering. I put a pf4 filter in a pf2 recommended tank, so We'll see if that works

 

[OldMan47]

Overfiltering will remove more solids but those are not a problem in terms of the fish's health anyway. If you removed semi-mature media by changing filters, you made your water changing routine harder, not easier. The only real way to deal with high populations is lots of water changes. If you can keep the ammonia and nitrites under control without water changes, meaning your filter has matured, you still need more water changes for more fish. You can think of it sa each fish requiring so much water change because it produces so much nitrates with its individual biological waste being processed. You control the build of nitrates using water changes to keep the nitrates from rising more than 20 ppm above tap water readings. Each added fish means either bigger or more frequent changes to achieve that, it is very simple mathematics.
Caring for guppy or platy fry is identical. You provide frequent small feedings for growth and do lots of water changes to keep any waste food from building in the tank. Don't try to kid yourself into thinking that by being careful with feeding you can skip water changes.