About my Fry tank

[willywonka099]

Okay I let my tank run for 48 hours to dechlorinate with about 7-8 g. of water in it ..... after 48 hours new gravel water from the main tank and a handful of gravel from the main tank was added ......... I was wondering how often should i do water changes with 15 fry (sailfin molly) 10 gal. 1/4-1.2 inch in size ..... Also I was thinging of starting off with a few corys for botom feeders ..... I was going to do ottos but I would like to try corys I have wanted them for a LONG time.

Well will the corys eat the fry ??? I was thinking albino corys (I know the are larger) Would they purposley eat a fry hiding in the gravel or even on accident ?? my franchise LFS has a few types of corys ..... Aenus,Albino,Panda,Skunk and that's all I can rember they had bout 1 week ago ...... but with the hurricanes coming the shipments are messed up from the ponds in FL so I don't know right now ........... What do you think ??? I want some corys that will sawn for me ...... and are very interactive but not aggresive ...suggestions are GREATLY appreciated so please don't be shy to share your opinion

Also I was going to raise my fry tank temp to around 80 d. is this too warm for corys ??

 

[willywonka099]

I know some one knows some thing !! (not to rush)

 

[clutterydrawer]

why do you want corys in a fry tank? surely you shouldnt even have gravel?

 

[willywonka099]

So I don't have poo floating all over the place ....... It's the tank they will be in for a while .....

 

[willywonka099]

Well I want corys for a bottom feeder and i have wanted them for a while ....... Why does it matter why I just like them

 

[clutterydrawer]

cories won't eat poo.


most people leave fry tanks free of substrate.

 

[willywonka099]

You're not understanding ....... I know MOST PPL do but if the poo gets caught in the rgavel i can syphon it easily

I want corys to feed off of the bottom and I like them and maybe get them to spawn

 

[appleblossom]

I have gravel in my fry tank too but cleaning it is a pain, a gravel vacuum wont work in a shallow tank and syphoning always runs the risk of sucking the babies out with the poo.

cories do prefer to live with a sand substrate as it doesnt hurt the little fronds round their mouths and they can rummage in the sand for food.

the cories wont eat the poo in your tank so you will still need to clean it, as clutterydrawer said the gravel will make this job more difficult but not impossible.

if the fry are hiding in the gravel like mine sometimes do and the cory finds them then they will no doubt be eaten. having no gravel in a fry tank eliminates this possibility as they cant hide in sand like they do in the gaps between gravel.

i have no idea about getting cories to spawn, I cant even sex mine...

 

[willywonka099]

Well I know corys will not eat poo !!! LOL I want it to eat anything at the bottom .... I don't have a continuous supply of fry so I wont have tiny ones very often for the corys to eat ...... Should I just put them in my main tank ro get a smaller species ?? (skunk panda or aenus ??) that was more along the lines of what I wnated to know ... I would rather have gravel in my fry tank than sand b/c sand will get sucked up by a vac and you cant just go over the top of the sand b/c the poo is put into the sand as fish swim by and disturb it. ...

 

[Aquascaper]

sand will get sucked up by a vac and you cant just go over the top of the sand b/c the poo is put into the sand as fish swim by and disturb it.

Erm.....no

It's easier to clean sand than gravel IMO as everything sits on the top including the poo. To avoid sucking the sand up you just wave the syphon a couple of centimetres above the sand and this creates mini vortices which lifts the detritus off the sand.
I never once seen poo get 'put into the sand' by a fish swimming by in any of my sand tanks as the sand is thoroughly washed to get rid of any light material and leave the dense sand which settles quickly if disturbed (even by a banjo!). With food and poo being lighter than the sand it will always take longer to settle and therefore end up on top of the sand.

Having said all that I agree with clutterydrawer that usually fry tanks don't have substrate of any type for various reasons.

 

[willywonka099]

Well my tank has substrate ... i was talking it over with my dad and I thikn i have decided to get a few corys for my main WITH GRAVEL and put my pleco in my 10 gal. (until he outgrows)will my corys be okay with gravel ??

 

[Aquascaper]

As long as the gravel is smallish and rounded as they can damage their barbs easily on rough substrate

 

[ferrikins]

Ya corys will be fine, I have had corrys with gravel in the past.

As for sand I hate the stuff, terrible to clean and my filters always clog up.

I hoping to get a new 20g fry tank soon, it will have an Undergravel filter. I my exsperance gravel far easyer to clean.

I even gonna change my main tank from sand to gravel, cos I sick of sand.

for ground feeders Khuli loatchs seem to do well with fry, I have 3 in my current fry tank, I think it good to have a ground feeder cos they will pick off all the dead sickly fry.

HTH

 

[willywonka099]

Ya corys will be fine, I have had corrys with gravel in the past.

As for sand I hate the stuff, terrible to clean and my filters always clog up.

I hoping to get a new 20g fry tank soon, it will have an Undergravel filter. I my exsperance gravel far easyer to clean.

I even gonna change my main tank from sand to gravel, cos I sick of sand.

for ground feeders Khuli loatchs seem to do well with fry, I have 3 in my current fry tank, I think it good to have a ground feeder cos they will pick off all the dead sickly fry.

HTH

Your post gives me hope my gravel is ruff .... well half of it .... half of it is colored small rough stones and the other half is slightly larger river/smooth gravel I don't think I want to bother with sand though ...... I'm not sure what I am going to do mauybe even snails suggestions of ANY bottom feeders IYOE would be great ...main tank or fry

 

[ferrikins]

well I acherly never been able to keep snail alive, but sound a good choise.