clareybaby87
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hi, i have a separate 20ltr tank for my fry, the oldest fry in there are 8 weeks old and giving birth to fry of their own, the youngest are 1 week old swordtails.
We've had deaths every so often, around 1 or 2 a week, sometimes more.
Now in the last 3 days, 32 fry have died. Its been a mixture of the young swordtails, and the older ones.
What i have also noticed is that some of the bigger guppys tails are pointed, i don't know if thats normal or not?
They are being fed 3 times a day, on tetra mini baby food, which was recommended to me. Every so often (altho i haven't done 4 about 2 weeks) i cut up frozen blood worm aswell and pop that in there.
The babies are in a breeding box in the fry tank, as the older ones started pecking at them as soon as we put the sword tails in the tank, so we had to net them all back out again and but them in the box.
I've done water tests which are fine. There was a tinge of green in the ammonia test tube lastnight, which has never harmed them before, but i changed the water anyway. I'm using interpret tap safe, which i've always used, and its never been an issue, and the temp is on 26 degrees, so there shouldn't be a problem. But just walked passed the tank 5 mins ago, and there were 7 more dead babies (32 in total)
Anyone have any ideas? i've been waiting months to finally have swordtail fry and they are all dying, i'm gutted. Plus theres some lovely guppies in there that i don't want to lose. We already lost our favourite (and biggest) dalmation molly the day b4 yesterday (which we were going to keep) Really don't want to lose anymore.
So the 2 questions are y r they dying?
and y are some of their tails pointed?
:S thanks 4 n e help u can give me.
We've had deaths every so often, around 1 or 2 a week, sometimes more.
Now in the last 3 days, 32 fry have died. Its been a mixture of the young swordtails, and the older ones.
What i have also noticed is that some of the bigger guppys tails are pointed, i don't know if thats normal or not?
They are being fed 3 times a day, on tetra mini baby food, which was recommended to me. Every so often (altho i haven't done 4 about 2 weeks) i cut up frozen blood worm aswell and pop that in there.
The babies are in a breeding box in the fry tank, as the older ones started pecking at them as soon as we put the sword tails in the tank, so we had to net them all back out again and but them in the box.
I've done water tests which are fine. There was a tinge of green in the ammonia test tube lastnight, which has never harmed them before, but i changed the water anyway. I'm using interpret tap safe, which i've always used, and its never been an issue, and the temp is on 26 degrees, so there shouldn't be a problem. But just walked passed the tank 5 mins ago, and there were 7 more dead babies (32 in total)
Anyone have any ideas? i've been waiting months to finally have swordtail fry and they are all dying, i'm gutted. Plus theres some lovely guppies in there that i don't want to lose. We already lost our favourite (and biggest) dalmation molly the day b4 yesterday (which we were going to keep) Really don't want to lose anymore.
So the 2 questions are y r they dying?
and y are some of their tails pointed?
:S thanks 4 n e help u can give me.