Think Fish Keepers Daily News. [2016-2019]

I have just done a water change on the two kitchen tanks - and discovered I forgot to plug the heater back in for the 50 litre last water change (6 days ago)  Luckily it is not mid winter so the temp had only dropped to 21^o

I also redid the plants in the betta's tank. I found an old piece of holey rock in the storage box so he now has a half terracotta plantpot with java fern on it; a piece of wood with java fern and anubias; and a holey rock with hornwort pushed through the holes. I also moved things around so the taller plant (hornwort) is at the back. The betta is now exploring his re-arranged tank.

Congratulations on the pygmy cory fry. 

Congrats
Hatched quicker than mine, got no fry yet

it is not newly hatched.

I suspected that myself, its a lot bigger then the one I spotted on the java fern which was more like 1mm. I can't remember if it was banded or striped  There's eggs all over the tank and the 10 or so that were under the frogbit have all gone. I hope they don't all survive, I'll be swimming in pygmy cories at this rate.

I'm not actually putting food in for the fry, they're living on whatever they can find but I suspect the Bacter AE is helping, I know the shrimp eat it.

After 48 hours the QT tank has double Zeros for Ammonia and Nitrite. Progress to 24 hour testing now 

The only thing is I have no plans to do anything with the tank for now so I will be feeding the filters using ammonia once the cycle is complete....... I wonder if the missus would let me at least get some fish to put in there. I'm definitely not keen on splitting up my community!! 

The dose should be on the bottle.

But DON'T USE IT IN THE TANK or it'll kill the filter bacteria. You need a small container and an air stone to circulate water round the eggs. And a heater to keep them warm. It doesn't have to be a tank, one of those plastic storage boxes they sell everywhere for a couple of £ is perfect for this.

Don't forget methylene blue will stain everything blue.

The main cause of fungussing is stale water. You need to keep water flowing constantly over the eggs. You had the eggs inside a tube, inside a floating box didn't you? You won't get much water flow in that. (And the newly hatched fry would get out of the slits in the plastic box and get eaten; newly hatched fry are tiny)

Do you have an air pump that you could attach a small airstone to? If you could arrange one inside the plastic box that would help.




This is why you really need a nursery tank.

The harlequins have obviously worked out what all the frenzied chasing and "liaisons" in the leaves by the tetras is about - spotted two harlequins flipping upside down with one another this morning!

getting final preparations ready for my french writing tomorrow. wish me luck!

Good luck, Apache. I was a teacher for 20 years and I know how stressful and difficult exams are. They've probably not got any easier since I 'retired' in 2007.

Merci, madame FCMF