Sara_Notfors
New Member
Hi all,
I'm hoping some more experienced fish keepers than I can help me with my breeding pair of acaras. I've had them about two to three weeks in a 200L well planted aquarium with an oversize external filter. They have flat rocks and bogwood to spawn/hide and small sized gravel as a substrate.
So far they've laid eggs twice and the fry have got to be tiny free-swimming fry. They are good parents and protect them (not too aggressively) from the tetras and the cherry barbs in the tank. I've been feeding the fry micro and Walter worms about twice a day.
The issue I have is that after I've done a water change (being very careful with water temp and de-cholorination, perhaps too good at dechlorination with API stress coat) the fry disappear - I assume that the change in water parameters is too much for them?
I have been considering getting a Fluval Flex 57L as a spawning/ growing out tank, but with this smaller volume I'd need to do more water changes to keep the parameters looking good. Is this a good idea? My thinking would be to move the parents back to the large tank once they stop looking after their young.
Any help or advice is much appreciated. I'm quite disheartened that the loss of the fry.
Thanks,
Sara
The photo is from a video still, apologies for the bad quality.
I'm hoping some more experienced fish keepers than I can help me with my breeding pair of acaras. I've had them about two to three weeks in a 200L well planted aquarium with an oversize external filter. They have flat rocks and bogwood to spawn/hide and small sized gravel as a substrate.
So far they've laid eggs twice and the fry have got to be tiny free-swimming fry. They are good parents and protect them (not too aggressively) from the tetras and the cherry barbs in the tank. I've been feeding the fry micro and Walter worms about twice a day.
The issue I have is that after I've done a water change (being very careful with water temp and de-cholorination, perhaps too good at dechlorination with API stress coat) the fry disappear - I assume that the change in water parameters is too much for them?
I have been considering getting a Fluval Flex 57L as a spawning/ growing out tank, but with this smaller volume I'd need to do more water changes to keep the parameters looking good. Is this a good idea? My thinking would be to move the parents back to the large tank once they stop looking after their young.
Any help or advice is much appreciated. I'm quite disheartened that the loss of the fry.
Thanks,
Sara
The photo is from a video still, apologies for the bad quality.