The Plant Tank

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Angelfish fry still alive!

  • pH:
  • Temp:
  • KH:
  • GH:
  • NH4:
  • NO2:
  • NO3: 5
  • PO4: 0.75
  • Iron:
  • Dosing: 15 mL Excel, 5 ppm NO3, 1 ppm PO4
  • NO3:PO4 Cumulative Dosing Ratio: 30:3.8 = 7.9

Notes:
I was away from the tank for a couple days, and I was bummed because I wouldn't be able to feed the new angelfish fry during that time. I thought they would just all die from the lack of food. When I came back, I was very surprised to see that out of the original 10, 6 of them were still alive, and noticeably bigger! Perhaps they had fed off of their siblings, who knows. I had kept some brine shrimp alive in the hopes that some of the fry would survive after I returned, and so when I fed the surviving fry, they ate so much that their bellies swelled as big as their heads. They were hungry, to say the least. The angelfish had also laid eggs again during that time, but all the eggs turned white for whatever reason. The large female shrimp sighted today.

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