Re: Changing Water in Baby Tank

[Lilia Stepanova <ls691035@bcm.tmc.edu>]

I would argue against no water changes for a month. Just recently I lost 
A LOT of ram's fry because I did not change water in their tank (2g) for a 
week. All of them died in just few hours and deaths stoped after change. I 
have only few left, but already have several new batches and defenitely 
will try not to do same mistakes again. 
Apisto's fry is much more hardy and I did not have any fry deaths in a 
batch of about 70 fry, although I sometimes skip water changes for them. 
I would also speculate that the original problem was not with water maybe, 
but with fry starving.

Lilia

> I've had success with no water changes at all for up to a month.  With some
> live plants (I float water sprite in my tanks, and add clumps of java moss)
> and bacteria in the substrate (I've had greater survival rates with gravel
> on the bottom of my tank), the water doesn't seem to get too foul.
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> Disclaimer -- I'm new to apistos, and most of my experience is with
> labyrinth fish.
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> Alysoun McLaughlin
> alysoun@planetall.com
> alysoun.mclaughlin@ncsl.org
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