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jett lee
Small Fry
 Number of posts: 27
Age: 14
Location: perth WA
Job/hobbies: fishing,hunting,spearfishing,fish keeping and shooting
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Registration date: 2010-08-28
 | | Subject: pls help fry!! Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:54 am | |
| people my fry are in a unheated betta tank with a airstone. can i transfer the fry to the breeding tank? they still have the eggsack on. |
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Doug
Moderator
Number of posts: 2281
Age: 26
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Job/hobbies: Aquatic ecologist/genetisist
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Thank You Points: 132
Registration date: 2010-05-08
| | Subject: Re: pls help fry!! Thu Oct 07, 2010 4:06 am | |
| Yes but very carefully!!!!!!! I would get a soup spoon or something similar (nice big deep spoon) and use that to fish them out. prob the least nasty way to do it. They are very sensitve to pressue etc and syphoning/netting will prob kill them. dont be surprised if you loose a few in the process  _________________ Doug's Bristlenose eBook - The number one source of Bristlenose information and the most detailed breeding guide avaliable
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jett lee
Small Fry
Number of posts: 27
Age: 14
Location: perth WA
Job/hobbies: fishing,hunting,spearfishing,fish keeping and shooting
Thank You Points: 0
Registration date: 2010-08-28
| | Subject: Re: pls help fry!! Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:26 am | |
| | Doug wrote: | Yes but very carefully!!!!!!!
I would get a soup spoon or something similar (nice big deep spoon) and use that to fish them out. prob the least nasty way to do it. They are very sensitve to pressue etc and syphoning/netting will prob kill them.
dont be surprised if you loose a few in the process |
yes but will the sudden change in water temp kill them? |
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Doug
Moderator
Number of posts: 2281
Age: 26
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
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Registration date: 2010-05-08
| | Subject: Re: pls help fry!! Thu Oct 07, 2010 9:23 pm | |
| fish are not as sensitivive to temp changes as people think. The old myth about letting the bag sit in the water to let the temp adjust is totally bogus. I would get a tupperware container and half fill it with water from the tank they are currently in. then spoon them into the container. Then, very slowly, add in water from their new tank. this will adjust them to the new water and temp. once the mixture of water in the container is more than 50% from the new tank then i would add them to the new tank, but again, very gently  Good luck _________________ Doug's Bristlenose eBook - The number one source of Bristlenose information and the most detailed breeding guide avaliable
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graham26
Juvinile Bristlenose
Number of posts: 40
Thank You Points: 1
Registration date: 2010-04-22
| | Subject: Re: pls help fry!! Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:15 pm | |
| Be ok to move them but be very careful if you damage the yolk sacs you will kill them |
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jett lee
Small Fry
Number of posts: 27
Age: 14
Location: perth WA
Job/hobbies: fishing,hunting,spearfishing,fish keeping and shooting
Thank You Points: 0
Registration date: 2010-08-28
| | Subject: Re: pls help fry!! Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:30 am | |
| thaks guys!! i just moved them and there doing fine. never had one fatality since they where a egg |
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Mooo
Moderator
 Number of posts: 951
Age: 50
Location: Jervis Bay, NSW, Australia
Job/hobbies: Retired
Humor: What?
Thank You Points: 36
Registration date: 2009-12-14
| | Subject: Re: pls help fry!! Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:23 pm | |
| Great work,, Good luck with them... |
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adey_leeds
Fish Egg
Number of posts: 2
Location: leeds
Thank You Points: 0
Registration date: 2010-10-16
| | Subject: turkey baster Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:37 pm | |
| When I need to move fry around tanks and to fry savers,I use a turkey baster. I even use it on my L333 when they have been accidently kicked out of the cave by the male. Just hold it aboe the fry you want to pickup and then suck up. Its better than syhoning or netting. |
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