Mixing Fry(babies) long ramble

[RuevenM at aol_com]

Hi Chris,

         You won't need a 29 gallon to raise 20 or so gardneri. They don't 
need that much space. You could raise all your gardneri when they hatch in 
two 10's.
        Does your Blue Panchax male look fat? Sometimes if fish are getting 
dropsy they will sit on the bottom. But they will look very fat and their 
scales look like they are roughed up and sticking out. Chances are that he 
was just resting. Why don't you increase the amount of hornwort in your 
panchax tank? Really cover the top of the water with it, maybe 3 inches 
thick. Try feeding the adults some bloodworms, blackworms or chopped 
earthworms to increase egg production in the female. Change half the water 
every week or twice a week even and feed some live baby brine shrimp to the 
tank every day. I bet you start seeing a few fry in a few weeks. Oh yeah, the 
panchax don't need peat moss.
       Chris, I know loving and wanting fish so badly gets frustrating at 16. 
You want to do so much more than you can -- yet. Try to chill. Get more 
tanks, make room for them, get some more books on killies, join the AKA (a 
year membership is fine -- better a little bit of membership than none at 
all), learn about growing your own (cheap) live food for your fish -- lots of 
fun, contact the AKA guys in the San Diego area, get your gardneri eggs 
hatched and the fry growing and put those "evil" LOL cichlids in that unused 
125 and free up that good killie tank.

Robert
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