Why My Fry Is Dying?

[rahina]

when my fish was pregnant I tansfered it to a smaller tank with partitions but later other fish were pregnant too and I had many fries. the water got milky oneday and lots of fish started to die. then I transfered the fry I mean what was left to a much bigger new tank half filled with cycled water, new water and two live plants but they are still dying and I can't figure the reason could anyone help?

 

[jayjay]

Sounds like an ammonia spike. BTW it's not the water that is cycled it's the filter media so you need to move some of that to new filter etc. It could be from the shock that the fish died or another ammonia spike or something else was wrong with the tank.

 

[WILDER]

Water stats in ammonia,nitrite,nitrate,and ph, how many fry in the container and what size is the container, any laboured breathing, red gills, or black patches on them.

 

[rahina]

what's an amonia spike? my new fry tank was okay yesterday but the water started to get cloudy. Do I feed my fish too often I feed them twice or thrice and some of the food falls to the base I take good care to remove this remaining and do 10- 15% water change every day to fight amonia what seems to be the problem?

I feed my fry twice and the food is called Qutur Baby food it is Crude protein crude fat and crude fiber it is finely crushed what I can't understand why the fry tank is cloudy while the other tank which contains elder fish isn't? is it because there are shells in the elder fish tank. I only put two live plants a filtre in the fry tank? should I add some shells?

 

[jayjay]

Right well this happened to me last night I lost getting close to 1000 fry I think. I'm not sure of the cause but I think it was because of all the fungused eggs creating ammonia. I still have alot more eggs and fry left though.

 

[WILDER]

Cloudy tanks can be due to over feeding as you have to feed fry more, water change, stats would be good, and also you need a filter even if its just one of those cheap sponge ones.
No shells it alters ph.

 

[jayjay]

Ok i'll explain what happened in mine (sorry for the hyjack) The tank is 8g, 2 days old and had one day old fry still with their eggs sacks so I hadn't fed them. After 2 days my tank went cloudy all that was in there was two flower pots covered in eggs and a rock also covered in eggs (it couldn't of been any of these as they have been in my 90g for months). No substrate just a few floating plants for fry cover. Sorry no water stats as I cleaned it all out and moved the rest of the eggs to another tank.

 

[rahina]

Thanks Guys for your help I really appreciate it B)

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Thanks Guys for your help I really appreciate it B)

You need to buy a test kit and test your wtaer for ammonia, nitrites and nitrates as until then, you cannot rule out water quality problems or know how bad they are if you have them- this is an important priority for you to do.
Newly set up tanks often get bacterial blooms, you should do regular small daily water changes and clean the substrate thoroughly (depending on what type of substrate you have) over the coming week to help get rid of it- normally bacterial blooms cause litte harm to adult fish, but fry are much more sensitive to these things, adding extra aeration to the tank will help the fry out a lot in coping with the bloom too.