TwoTankAmin
Fish Connoisseur
Well I may be old but I am also smarter tham the average fry. I got a 6 smaller albino bristlenose (1 was a LF) and 3 very small red lizards to help with agae in my planted jungles. The plant was to spread them out and when they looked ready to be spawnable to bring them back to a club meeteing to sell. I would donate the proceeds to the club. I did not thinlkk I was close, until a few days ago when I discovered albino fry plastered on the tank glass. UGH.
This is in my very heavily planted 75 gal. in-wall tank. No way those fry can be allowed to stay there an grow. But we are talking very tiny recently free swimming first spawn fry. They are too tiny to net. To catch them you must use a siphon. Fortunately I have them in various lengths and diameters. Some have a long piece of rigid yubing on the end. I have my trusty flash lights and a bucket.
1. Spot tiny whitish fry somewhere.
2. Grab biggest siphon with the longest rigid tune on it.
3. Start siphon not near the fry and put finger over the bucket end once it flows.
4. Sneak up to fry on glass/wood/sand.
5. Release finger and suck up fry.
Now comes the problem. The fry cannot be netted in the bucket either- to small. So, get airline and specimen box, Suck fry, into box. Day one I had 14 and got 5 more day two. The 14 over-nighted in the box with some wood scraps and some poly filter. The next 5 were nabbed yesterday. I decided to move them all into the 33L where I had put all the assassin snails. Added wood a filter and some food/
I just grabbed 5 more from the tank. I am thinking a first spawn is in the 25 fish range,so I must be close to nabbing them all. The LF turned out to be the male and if it goes back into the cave I will grab it and move it to the tank with the fry and snails.
Now I need to watch the other duos in case. UGH!
To paraphrase the poet Robert Burns, “the best-laid schemes o'fish an' me Gang aft agley.” Thankfully, I am still smarter than the average fry.
edited to add the following
Maybe I am not as smart as i thought. Since making this paost I have nabbed 7 more fry. I almost got the dad, but he fled rather then entering his cave![-( :-( :-(](/images/smilies/ipb/cry1.gif)
edited for manytypos
This is in my very heavily planted 75 gal. in-wall tank. No way those fry can be allowed to stay there an grow. But we are talking very tiny recently free swimming first spawn fry. They are too tiny to net. To catch them you must use a siphon. Fortunately I have them in various lengths and diameters. Some have a long piece of rigid yubing on the end. I have my trusty flash lights and a bucket.
1. Spot tiny whitish fry somewhere.
2. Grab biggest siphon with the longest rigid tune on it.
3. Start siphon not near the fry and put finger over the bucket end once it flows.
4. Sneak up to fry on glass/wood/sand.
5. Release finger and suck up fry.
Now comes the problem. The fry cannot be netted in the bucket either- to small. So, get airline and specimen box, Suck fry, into box. Day one I had 14 and got 5 more day two. The 14 over-nighted in the box with some wood scraps and some poly filter. The next 5 were nabbed yesterday. I decided to move them all into the 33L where I had put all the assassin snails. Added wood a filter and some food/
I just grabbed 5 more from the tank. I am thinking a first spawn is in the 25 fish range,so I must be close to nabbing them all. The LF turned out to be the male and if it goes back into the cave I will grab it and move it to the tank with the fry and snails.
Now I need to watch the other duos in case. UGH!
To paraphrase the poet Robert Burns, “the best-laid schemes o'fish an' me Gang aft agley.” Thankfully, I am still smarter than the average fry.
edited to add the following
Maybe I am not as smart as i thought. Since making this paost I have nabbed 7 more fry. I almost got the dad, but he fled rather then entering his cave
![-( :-( :-(](/images/smilies/ipb/cry1.gif)
edited for manytypos
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