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Re: A few more beginners questions - raising fry

Hi Torben,

        It sounds like you are doing great to me.  That's a lot more care
than mine get!  But you are exactly right about the wonder and amazement of
breeding fish, and raising those tiny, tiny fry into their beautiful adult
forms!  It is what hooks us all, I think!  To get some help closer to home
you might try contacting Finn Larsen, the Secretary of the Scandinavian
Killifish Association.  I met him here in Florida recently, and he's a
really nice guy.  His email address is fcl at post5_tele.dk.

Jay Moylan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Torben Larsen" <tl at kom_auc.dk>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 2:52 AM
Subject: A few more beginners questions - raising fry


> Hello all.
>
> I have the first live baby Fp. gardneri - two of them. Well not many but
as
> they are my first I don't care. Quite a number of eggs were ruined - they
> were put in mature aquarium water but with no added anti bacterial
> ingredients. It is incredible that these very small fish will develop into
> the beautiful gardneris. I am looking forward to following their
development
> over the next weeks and months.
>
> They hatched this sunday in a small 1L floating tank. I then moved them to
a
> 2.5L tank external to the aquarium. Temperature is 20-21 degrees C. Is
this
> OK for the fry?
>
> In the morning I feed them with a little bit of Sera FD cyclops or similar
> and in the afternoon they get baby brine shrimps (BBS). Is this OK for a
> diet?
>
> I make daily 50% water changes (2-3 hours after they have been fed with
BBS)
> and remove any waste proucts the best I can. The added water is taken from
> my main tank. Is this an OK procedure?
>
> Should I at some point begin to make water changes with tap water? If so,
> approximately when?
>
> I have added an air stone with a low airflow level to the tank. I guess
> filtering is not an issue yet with the frequent water changes. Right?
>
> Any other advice on bringing up the babies?
>
> Torben Larsen
> Denmark
>
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