Re: Mixing Fry(babies) long ramble

[Chris Browning <fisher25000 at yahoo_com>]

Oh, and what do you mean unused? The cichlids are in their own little 10 gallon tank. The 125 is being used fine, atleast as far as I can tell. It has a 3" and a 6" pleco, 3 clown loaches, 3 otos, 4 Balas, 7 Black Neons, 5 Red Platys, 10 Dwarf Praecox Rainbows, 4 Blue Panchax, and 4 "Golden Wonder" Killes, which I believe are just another "population" of Blue Panchax. I will be getting some redworms soon for the lonely female also. I WOULD add more hornwart, but I don't have any! :( and none of the stores sell it! They don't seel anything but some african thing with big leaves, and anacharis. That's about all that anyone can find. I did just recieve some water sprite in the mail today, should I put that in there? And if so, should I leave it floating, or plant it in the sand?
 RuevenM at aol_com wrote: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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