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anasfire23 · 06-07-2007, 09:02 PM

they don't need aeration of the water so a bubble isn't necessary. They don't develop their labyrinth organ until they are around 6-8 weeks of age either so you can keep the tank covered with cling film or similar to keep some of the heat in until this point. I never bothered with that though coz I had a heater that kept the water at a steady temp. You might want to see if your LFS has frozen bbs in blister packs coz they are handy and much easier than trying to keep a few hatcheries going to feed fry. I used to just dissolve half a block in some tank water at each feeding and spread it evenly throughout the tank.

Good Luck Chris!

PS you know those 2L bottles of soda you can get? Whenever you are finished with them, clean them out, cut off and throw away the cone piece at the top and keep the bottom part. They make great containers for fry once you need to separate them.

06-07-2007, 09:02 PM	#4
anasfire23 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gold Coast, Queensland Australia Age: 26 Posts: 583	they don't need aeration of the water so a bubble isn't necessary. They don't develop their labyrinth organ until they are around 6-8 weeks of age either so you can keep the tank covered with cling film or similar to keep some of the heat in until this point. I never bothered with that though coz I had a heater that kept the water at a steady temp. You might want to see if your LFS has frozen bbs in blister packs coz they are handy and much easier than trying to keep a few hatcheries going to feed fry. I used to just dissolve half a block in some tank water at each feeding and spread it evenly throughout the tank. Good Luck Chris! PS you know those 2L bottles of soda you can get? Whenever you are finished with them, clean them out, cut off and throw away the cone piece at the top and keep the bottom part. They make great containers for fry once you need to separate them. __________________ ~60L Planted Community Tank~ Plants: 1 x Elodea Fish: 3 Month old guppy fry, mixed sex, 4 M & 3 F guppies, 1 x 10m old M DC Fry ~Male Bettas:~ Robin - HM or Delta CT Cyborg & Slade DC Fry Braedan - CT & Proud Daddy ~Female Bettas~ Starbuck & Scarlet CT Girls 190L (50G) Planted Tank Plants: 3 x Jungle Val, 1 x Ludwidgia Fish: 6 x Harlequin Rasboras, 6 Black, 5 glowlight & 12 Neon tetras, 2 Common Pleco's Last edited by anasfire23; 06-07-2007 at 09:06 PM.