peace, fry

[Mushroomman]

i used to have about 10 fry, and i cleaned their tank today and found only 3 . well, there goes my plan on selling them... i have an aunt who said she would take them once they get bigger... well, this sucks. does anyone know how often koi spawn in a season? what's weird is they just "dissapeared"- they are too small to leave bodies. oh well.

 

[st.anger]

did you look in the filters?, iv found corys, jd, convicts all alive in my filters before and the corys where in there from hatch too .5"

 

[Mushroomman]

no filter, just an airstone.
i feed them liquifry for egglayers
the water was warm
the tank was covered
i don't know why they died. maybe a disease? i cleaned the tank ,so any disease should be gone. yeah i heard of the infamous "filter living" some fry do, but thats easily ruled out- no filter.

 

[st.anger]

mabey there hidding in the gravel?

 

[Mushroomman]

no gravel, it's bare exept a little clay cup. hmmm... real brainbuster, eh?

 

[PreciousGems]

Any snails in the tank? My big apple snail eats all of the fish in my tank when they die immediately. So I can never tell how my fish died, just that they're gone.

 

[Mushroomman]

nope, just the fry, the airstone, and the pot.

 

[st.anger]

the only thing i can think of now is them some how jumping out or canibalisim if there yoke sac is gone.

 

[Mushroomman]

can't jump out, the water level is >4 inches away from the top. your prolly right, they most likely ate each other for some reason. that's the only thing i can think of too.

 

[st.anger]

see if you can get some baby brine shrimp if there big enuff, mabey there not eating the food your trying, even grind up some flake foods for them.

 

[Mushroomman]

they are about the size of a coma , . they must eat the food i give them 'cause they are about a week or 2 old, and they have to be living on something. i do add crushed flakes.
thanks everyone

 

[Mushroomman]

ahhh... cleaned my fry tank today, and found 1 floating dead... 2 left... i guess it's survival of the fitest.

 

[Mushroomman]

down to 1...

well the good news is i can start my tank earlier w/o the extra fry burden...

 

[mariners]

sorry for the losses.....




....you'll have to make sure that final fry grows into a nice large koi.

 

[littleman2001]

that sux.