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Posted by Tynk on March 27, 2007, 8:09 pm
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> >> > What a bummer. However, I do have a cycled fry tank going for the ne=
xt
> >> > batch, along with tons of food.
> >> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> >> I think there's another explanation for their disappearance. =A0The fry
> > would
> >> have fled in panic had something come upon them in the night. =A0I
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> >> doubt they'd stay still and allow themselves to be eaten. Could they h=
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> >> gotten wedged in the gravel? =A0I had a few tiny cichild fry do that s=
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> >> years ago.
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> > The snails ate the fry. =A0Happens all the time, snails are voracious
> > predators although not especially fast ones. =A0I've seen entire tanks =
wiped
> > out by snails. =A0No mystery what happened here.
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> But fry will swim off in a panic when something approaches them in a
> darkened tank. They don't hold still and allow themselves to be overtaken.
> I've seen it with African Cichlid fry. =A0As soon as they became free swi=
mming
> they were not so easy to approach in the dark. =A0I tried to catch them w=
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> net.... slow and sneaky.... they took off in every direction. =A0In the e=
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> removed the sponge filter and large rocks to catch them. =A0Maybe some fry
> will not flee in fear and others do.....
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> > Fry tanks are best kept very bare, no gravel. =A0Use an external sponge
> > filter
> > that you've kept ready in a cycled tank. =A0It is very easy to keep the=
tank
> > clean this way, a simple siphon hose is all you need to clean up any
> > detritus. =A0Once the fry have developed some size you can move them to
> > bigger
> > tank with the usual gear, usually six weeks for angelfish fry.
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> After they got caught in the gravel that time I did remove it from the fry
> tanks.
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I'm guessing you had enough light in the area near the tank so that
you could see them, and they either awoke fully or weren't completely
asleep.
If you had it pitch dark in the room, and they were fully asleep, you
wouldn't have been able to see them to catch.
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