All My Fry Have Died!

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I had nbothing else to use other than a breeding trap or breeding net(which i dont like) so i used a 2 litre jar for them. THey were doing fine in there, developing colours etc, taking their baby brine shrimp.
My main tank has been acting weirdly, female guppies dying of fin rot bu theres been no sign of it soit might be an internal parasite? SO one pregnant female was dying, so i moved her to an isolation tank, where i treated her with melafix(now have fin rot treatment). She later that night had about 10 fry and died. So i netted them out and but them in the fry jar.
Now on sunday, i got a 10 gal tank for them. Set up with gravel, heater and sponge filter. I was told that i didnt need to let it cycle with a spnge filter so ni added them in the same day. They were fine at first, but today(tuesday) i looked and all the ones from the ill mother were all dead. I netted most of them out and would do a big water change after school.
Came in today and only one was left. So i did like a 90% water chaneg and he seems alright
I have my own BBS cultivation, where i scuk up the BBS with a turkey baster. Now sometiimes i get a few eggs in there so could they die from eating these? Or was it that the bucket i washed the gravel in (the night i set the tank up) had a sticker about the bucket in it, and when i was stirring hte gravel round, scrapping some of the paper off,coul;d they have consumed that making them ill?
What do you think?

Thanks
 
Well to start with, the ill mother having babies doesn't sound to good. The babies may have been doomed once she got sick. Did they look like normal fry? Like did they seem fully developed?

When I have fry tanks, I usually just leave a bare bottom as it's easier to clean because of how many times you need to feed fry in a day.

How often in a day do you feed your fry?
Are Brine shrimp the only things you feed?
What did you keep your temperature at?
 
you might want to stick with the replies in the other thread you started on this.... otherwise, there's only confusion for everyone involved.... :good:
 
temp is about 25
Feed the fry about 3 times a day. I have a microworm culture going but not much is happening. I also feed them on fy foods eg liquifry
No the fry looked fine :S
 

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