iNTeNSeBLue98
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Geez Louise
We had 8 babies left of the first 20, reduced to 3 tonight. (we prematurely introduced them to the main tank). They are about 3 weeks old now. DD and I cleaned the aquarium the best that we could by doing a water change and attempted to clean the gravel. We separated the larger fish to a fish bowl and left the remaining babies in their separate container. The water was still very dirty so I bagged the babies and the mature fish in separate bags until the filter could work through the debris.
After about 30 minutes I decide to take a look at the fish, because I thought I saw babies swimming with the larger fish - weird I think because there were only three and they were in their own bag. Lo and behold there are baby fish (frys) hatching as we peer in the bag!
So here we are again, trying to figure out how to prevent future births - it's really frustrating trying to capture the frys and keep them away from the adult fish. And, what do we do with all of the babies? Hopefully we've learned from the first hatching and more will survive, and maybe the pet shop will buy them when they have grown. In the meantime we need to figure out what to do to prevent the larger fish from mating again.

We had 8 babies left of the first 20, reduced to 3 tonight. (we prematurely introduced them to the main tank). They are about 3 weeks old now. DD and I cleaned the aquarium the best that we could by doing a water change and attempted to clean the gravel. We separated the larger fish to a fish bowl and left the remaining babies in their separate container. The water was still very dirty so I bagged the babies and the mature fish in separate bags until the filter could work through the debris.
After about 30 minutes I decide to take a look at the fish, because I thought I saw babies swimming with the larger fish - weird I think because there were only three and they were in their own bag. Lo and behold there are baby fish (frys) hatching as we peer in the bag!

So here we are again, trying to figure out how to prevent future births - it's really frustrating trying to capture the frys and keep them away from the adult fish. And, what do we do with all of the babies? Hopefully we've learned from the first hatching and more will survive, and maybe the pet shop will buy them when they have grown. In the meantime we need to figure out what to do to prevent the larger fish from mating again.