Re: blue ram sudden fry death

[David Sanchez <barbax2@yahoo.com>]

John sounds like it is most likely your not giving
them the food of the proper size. Just try giving them
an infusoria culture. Its a good old fashion trick
that works! Just add some old aquaruim water to a one
gallon jar along with a couple of grains of rice, or
banana or many other things for that matter. Read the
archives for many of the other common choices for
newly hatched rams. APR, infusoria, microworms, and
greenwater will all work.

Dave


--- John McCrone <j.mccrone@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Several list members suggested that parents might
> have eaten fry. That was
> my suspicion the first time and so this time I put a
> dozen or so in a
> breeding trap, leaving the rest with the parents.
> All had gone the next
> morning. So either the babies somehow got out of the
> trap (which has no
> holes I can find) or something else killed them.
> 
> I ruled out any drastic water condition changes as
> it seemed odd that twice
> in a row I had a cloud of healthy fry that all go at
> about the same stage of
> development. Starvation seems the most likely bet.
> This is what I will focus
> on the next time round.
> 
> Has anyone tried mushing up daphnia to feed fry?
> Will they pick freshly dead
> stuff out of the water column? Or even mushed up
> flake food?
> 
> David Sanchez asked about water conditions. I've run
> out of GH test, but it
> should be about 2. KH is unreadable. I don't have
> conductivity meters and
> other stuff. I would say that the water conditions
> ought to be better than
> for any other fish I've kept as I done more changes
> than were necessary to
> breed other apistos like aggazzi, mcmasteri, and
> keyholes. It could still be
> the water of course.
> 
> Cheers
>
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