When Doing A Water Change I Found A Fry

[020292]

~ Hey ~ I found a fry when doing a water change in my tropical tank and put him in the 1 gallon hexagon tank with a plant and no filter becuase i dont have a filter that wont suck him up! I can not afford to go out and buy a small world filter either! Sorry!

What should i do?

 

[TammyLiz]

Checked your profile and see you have livebearers. My advice would be to do nothing. They breed like mad. Add some fine plants, possibly get some hornwort, and leave it be. Cover your filter intake with pantihose or something if you're worried about it. Sooner or later, a few will survive, but in a tank that size you can't save them all. Don't worry if that one doesn't make it, you'll have more next week. If you really want to, you could get a breeder net and try to put the fry in there, or put pregnant females in there, but if you end up saving too many you'll have to get more tanks. I once had three guppies in a two gallon tank. It was my first tank and I didn't know anything and probably did nothing right. Some of the fry that I did nothing for actually survived in cramped quarters with only a plastic plant to hide in, so even after one of the adults died, I ended up with four guppies in my two gallon tank. Ahhh! Too many fish. And I didn't even try.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

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[SnowyzMom]

Java moss, just buy a handful from an lfs, works great as fry hiding places and it grows fast too. You don't plant it, just let it sit on the bottom. I usually weight mine down with a small stone so the current from the filter doesn't blow it all over. It'll also grow all around plastic plants and get anchored that way. The fry can feed off the java moss and hide in there as well. I get fry all the time, and some get eaten, some saved by me and some grow up on their own til they're too big to swallow, but they have to move fast before that, because the corydoras love to eat them too. Mobile crunch n' munch I guess.

Right now mine love having some of the squished tinned peas(just the insides) that I put into the tanks a couple times a week....also they'll come right to the surface to eat powdered brine shrimp--I buy brine shrimp pellets and they crumble easy to very fine teeny bits. (I don't have access to live food or freeze dried) They seem to do just fine on the brine shrimp.

Oh, I have filters/pumps in all my tanks and as the java moss isn't near them they never ever get sucked up into the filters. I'm guessing they swim too fast?

 

[020292]

Well i just want to let you know that The tropicals are in a 10 gallon and i have the fry in a one gallon tank becuase i am breeding for a freind becuase they are wanting fish! So i have it in the one gallon tank with a plant and i will see if we can get some java moss or something for them to hide in! Thanks!