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jk - 09 Sep 2004 05:16 GMT

Here's a bunch of questions about my severum fry. The first few days
after hatching, they kind of lay on the bottom under parental protection
until free swimmers. I don't see any yolk sacs, so exactly what are they
living off of all this time?

The last batch I removed from the parents 2 days after they were free
swimming, to a 20 gallon tank of their own. I reduced the filter to a
dribble, and put a fine mesh over the intake hose end. I fed them Liqui-fry
a few times a day. A hundred were reduced to 25 after 2 days... then 10
after 5 days, now 4 decent ones left after 3 weeks. Is this a normal
mortality rate, or did I remove them way too early?

This 20 gallon was empty for a few months, and used to have fish and
snails off and on, with the filter going all the time. I haven't seen one
snail in months. Now that the babies and food are reintroduced, the snails
have reappeared out of nowhere! Were the eggs laying dormant?

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skozzy - 12 Sep 2004 21:37 GMT

I have had 100% success feeding my africans with chicken eggs. I boil the
eggs untill hard, then put them in a food dehydrator for 6 hours, then into
a blender to turn it into a dust, then I feed then regularly a small pinch.
So far I have not had any deaths. One egg can last a month, but for my
blender I have to make at least 8 eggs or it's impossible to get it to grind
in to a dust without haveing to shake the crap out of the blender.

> Here's a bunch of questions about my severum fry. The first few days
> after hatching, they kind of lay on the bottom under parental protection
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> snail in months. Now that the babies and food are reintroduced, the snails
> have reappeared out of nowhere! Were the eggs laying dormant?

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CanadianCray - 13 Sep 2004 00:45 GMT

First off did you have any fish at all in this tank before the fry were in
it cause if not your bacteria colony prob. died due to lack of food. So they
could have died from high ammonia, nitrite etc. Also did you do any water
changes? Fry need VERY clean water, like 20-25% water change 3 times per
week. It sounds like they prob. died from poor water quality.

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>I have had 100% success feeding my africans with chicken eggs. I boil the
> eggs untill hard, then put them in a food dehydrator for 6 hours, then
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>> snails
>> have reappeared out of nowhere! Were the eggs laying dormant?

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