When Do You Release The Fry?

[Jo Booth]

My two balloon platys have had one fry - that we have found anyway! The fry is in his seperate net area and is now abou 1cm in length.

How big will he need to get before I can release him into the tank?

Ta

Jo

 

[Ace Of Spades]

My two balloon platys have had one fry - that we have found anyway! The fry is in his seperate net area and is now abou 1cm in length.

How big will he need to get before I can release him into the tank?

Ta

Jo

Depends what over fish are in the tank ?

 

[Jo Booth]

2 platys (mum & Dad), 5 guppies, 1 dwarf gourami and 1 dwarf catfish

70l jewel rekord tank

I have a feeling the little fella needs to be at least double his current size?

 

[Ace Of Spades]

2 platys (mum & Dad), 5 guppies, 1 dwarf gourami and 1 dwarf catfish

70l jewel rekord tank

I have a feeling the little fella needs to be at least double his current size?

What is the dwarf catfish?

 

[orange shark]

pgmy (sp) cory maybe?

 

[Jo Booth]

sorry, yes it is a pygmy cory - I was trying to keep an eye on lunch whilst typing and couldn't think of the name.

Ive had him for around 2 years and he is about 1.5 inches long and has never grown. cracking little cleaner and hoover of gravel !

 

[rabbut]

I would have thought that you are ready to let them go I'd see if you can get a few more pygmy corries, as they like groups of 6+ for security. You should find them more lively in these numbers

All the best
Rabbut

 

[Ace Of Spades]

I would have thought that you are ready to let them go I'd see if you can get a few more pygmy corries, as they like groups of 6+ for security. You should find them more lively in these numbers

All the best
Rabbut

I would wait for 2 cm tbh, the platy's eat their own fry and im sure the gourami would have a go if he had the chance, or to be safe 1"

 

[rabbut]

I have never had an issue after 1cm, and I've stunted a few in a trap by trying to grow them on any further. It may well depend on the type of trap, as with little water flowing through waste and hormones can build up and affect yoru fish

All the best
Rabbut

 

[Jo Booth]

thank you all for your advice as always

the cory was a rescue - a friends tank crashed and he was all that was left. He was supposed to be temporary but never went home. Ive never really looked into his requirements - I know that sounds awful but as he wasn't a fish that Ive researched for the tank and was supposed to be temporary. I will have a word with my LFS to see if they have any tank mates for him/her.

The fry is in a netted frame about 15x15cm and i placed at the mid point in the tank - the stream from the filter seems to the move the water quite well through the netting - you can see the cyclops being moved about in the net and he does chase them to eat (from frozen not live).

I might just give him another week and then let him out into the world.

Will he be ok im the tank with his parents - im not sure how fish go on with interbreeding issues.

Many Thanks

Jo