My Umbees had a batch of fry, their first one. about 200 survived to free swimming. As an experiment , cause I was reading different things on the internet, I seperated half the fry. About 100 stayed with the parents in the divided 180g and half went into an empty 10g. After about a month, the fry with the parents are pushing over 1/2 an inch. The fry in the 10g are nearing 1/4 of an inch. Guess Im not a good mommy. Anyone else experience this?
Fry Experiment
- Thread starter remme
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I agree. 100 fry in a 10 gallon is a pretty high bioload with feeding. What's your water change schedule?
Yea, I tried feeding the 10g fry as much as possible. Their tank has very little current and was stocked with 2 live plants and received water changes every other day. I gave up, theyre all back in with the parents, ha. I read that the smaller tank with less current would be better cause they arent wasting as much energy trying to swim in the current and could use that energy to grow. I also read that fry with the parents grow faster, guess the latter was true.
I use bare 40 breeders filtered by sponge filters as fry tanks. Ive left fry with their parents before and can safely say they grew faster in their own tank. Could be my feeding schedule though also.
I think feeding schedule is the most important part, plus there is a lot other stuff to feed on in the bigger tank versus the 10 gal. I'm actually doing exact same thing with my jag fry.
Well in my experience. I have done the same thing with Dovii, Jags, RTM, Xilo, Devils, Hoga, Carpintis, Zonatus. Every time the fry left with the parents grew much faster. The fry all have a 40 breeder, a 75 or a 90 to grow up in. I was told that the fry grow faster because they get far better nutrients from the parents slime coat. Watch your fry, they are constantly picking off of the parents. My parents and fry are not in any larger of a tank, than what I put the fry in.
But thats just me and my experience.
But thats just me and my experience.
I'm going to leave my latest spawn in win the mother. I always like to put new fry in bare bottom tanks because I can see any waste build up and i can moniter their intake when feeding. I'm not looking forward to having to switch off my filters that frequently to feed fry.