Recent content by platyoutofwater

It has been a while since last I posted... Mother is still doing absolutely fine, she is certainly resolute, to go from lying on my carpet for however many seconds/minutes to how she is now is remarkable, you wouldn't notice that anything had been wrong. The 6 week old fry are now quite large...

I was thinking of moving the last fry into the main tank in a month when the current batch are developed a bit more.

You can never have too many!

It's a ridiculous amount, no wonder she was looking so stressed with all those inside her!

We have birth! Hurrah! The fish is back in the main tank (where there is only one other female fish so no hassle) and is back eating straight away again stress free. There are rather a lot of fry seeing as I presumably saved nigh on all of them this time...

I'm heading home in a mo to check. I'm praying she has, if she doesn't tomorrow I'll put her back in the main tank regardless, I don't like her being stressed out in there. You live and you learn I guess.

She is still yet to give birth, I am worried now as I have obviously put her in too early, she seems to be alright in there with the lights off at the minute but I don't want her to get stressed out in there. Just praying she gives birth today whilst I'm at work and I can get her back into the...

I put her in the breeder trap last night right before lights out as recommended to attempt to reduce the stress, she has been good as gold in fairness. I am hoping the babies will come today whilst I'm at work so I can put her back in the large tank later, if not it will definitely be tomorrow...

It does look rather alien in there! Here is a picture of the pregnant platy today, I'm debating whether to move her into the breeder net yet or not, really do not want to stress her out but I want to protect the fry! Thoughts? Too early...

Yeh I thought she was going square, will put her in Wednesday I think, I have a relatively large breeder trap so hopefully she will remain calm, ultimately she is my main concern not the fry, I want her to be alright. It's a digital thermometer!!

Right, interesting weekend, now have the two adult fish in the 60 litre tank and the fry are now loose in the 20 litre tank. All seem to be thriving hoorah! My next concern is the mother of the fry and her giving birth again. It is now 23 days since she gave birth and she seems to be swelling...

I think I may need to head to the store and purchase some tights...it's a good job I am not too self conscious!! :P I placed the rock formation from the other tank in there last night, will squeeze the filter into there tonight and add some gravel when I possess some tights!

Thank you, I'll certainly coat the new cartridges in the old media, I can't see any way of storing the old media with the new though, the size of the new filter doesn't really accomodate anything else being added to it. I've been toying with the idea of adding bits of fish food on a daily...

It does make sense and I thank you for it. The filter in the new tank is a Marina slim filter with the three 'replaceable' cartridges, so am I best soaking those in the old media and putting them back into the filter and kick starting it? I really should have done this on Saturday in fairness.

How do I go about introducing the media? Is it a case of removing the filter sponge and giving it a squeeze? It's the one thing I've not risked trying yet as I'm unsure as to how best to do it. I have the AP test kit to use.