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woke up this morning....and saw my female platy a bit thinner...and so, i started looking around the tank...in the java moss area..there are small thingy with 2 dots that r swimming....i got fry!!!... un fortunately, i dont know how many she gave birth with..and i can only count a handful...and by the hour...they r disappearing one by one.

i have to get a new tank and try to rescue as many as i can otherwise...it will be like survival of the fittest.

with java moss in the tank some of them should survive, it is going to be hard to catch them and seperate them if that is what you are planning to do.

Goodluck

Koi

and hey congrats

Empty chairs at empty tables, the room silent, forlorn.

if u got floating plants, there'll be a good chance of many fry to survive, because after the fry were born they try to hang up at the top of the plants, and so the mother can't see them as they practice to swim.

thx for all... hey ronn...where u from in the phil??

Tankie, like was said you need some floating plants...get yourself some Anacharis...plant some and let some float above...It's great at helping conceal the fry and it will gather some of the food so the fry are able to eat...

The best thing and easiest as well as cheapest way that I've found to feed my fry is to just take what you normally feed the adults and put it in a ziplock type baggy, and crush/grind/mush it till it is in powder form, then sprinkle lightly...it is also what my adults now eat

Don't worry about saving ever little fry, you will soon have more than you want to think about

Congratulations!!! heidi

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

thank you

i'm from cebu, phillippines... good luck!

any reputable fish store u know in manila???

sorry, i can only tell you fish store in cebu.

ok...thx anyways