Help Save My Fry!

[ringham]

I have some cichlid fry that are kept in a small tank all by them selves.

I have an external filter connected to this small tank. The problem is that most of the fry are SOOOO small that they keep on swimming up the filter intake pipe and get killed.

How can I stop this happening? I was thinking of some kind of gauze/grid type thing but I don't really know what to do

Please help

 

[babybell911]

Tie net around the opening it will stop them going up

 

[mamafish68]

THEY STILL GET SUCKED UP TO THE NET.....

THERE FOR THEY DIE







perfect example why sponge filters are best for fry tanks. take the filter OFF the tank, its fine IF you have a air stone in the tank, then run out and get a sponge filter, of course, now you have the issue of the sponge not being full of benificial bacteria.... always pays to think ahead . squeeze and rub the old filter cartrige on the sponge after getting it wet with tank water would work.

what kind of fry?

 

[brewyn]

I agree with her above, a sponge filter and air pump is the best way foreward.

 

[ringham]

It isn't so much a problem of them getting sucked up because the filter has an adjustable flow rate and it is almost off. But then the fry go exploring and swim up the tube. Do you think that an elastic band would secure a net enough? Looking back it was probably worth getting a more suitable filter.

 

[Nick Sw]

I had this problem with my main tank and a rogue piranha fry someone suggested the end of some tights over the filter intake i`m sure a tie wrap or elastic band would work ok. The little fella survived 1 week of sky high ammonia and nitrite then swam in the filter just as I bought a fry tank !

 

[Tolak]

Take a filter sponge, cut a slit in it & slide it over the intake. This diffuses the flow better than net or screen, adds a little bio filtration to your filter, acts as a pre-filter to your hob.

 

[ringham]

I had this problem with my main tank and a rogue piranha fry someone suggested the end of some tights over the filter intake i`m sure a tie wrap or elastic band would work ok. The little fella survived 1 week of sky high ammonia and nitrite then swam in the filter just as I bought a fry tank !

very unlucky

Take a filter sponge, cut a slit in it & slide it over the intake. This diffuses the flow better than net or screen, adds a little bio filtration to your filter, acts as a pre-filter to your hob.

sounds like a gr8 idea i wll defo give it a go.