Lost my babies... Kribs

[RedForeman ©®]

Second batch, nearly a dozen.. They'd not been eating well, not sure why....
Last night when I went to feed them, I saw sevearal white bodies, floating
and some on the bottom... but a few were swimming... :-(

I picked up a body and examined it with a magnifying glass, and just beneath
it's gills, was a hole, rimmed in black, ate up in a way, but not possible..
unless it was a MTS, cuz that's all that was in with them...

9 of 12 were dead then, the other 3 weren't far behind.... Not entirely
sure what it was....

btw, it's 929am

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is that better??

[Rick]

"RedForeman ©®" > wrote in message
...
> Second batch, nearly a dozen.. They'd not been eating well, not sure
why....
> Last night when I went to feed them, I saw sevearal white bodies, floating
> and some on the bottom... but a few were swimming... :-(
>
> I picked up a body and examined it with a magnifying glass, and just
beneath
> it's gills, was a hole, rimmed in black, ate up in a way, but not
possible..
> unless it was a MTS, cuz that's all that was in with them...
>
> 9 of 12 were dead then, the other 3 weren't far behind.... Not entirely
> sure what it was....
>
> btw, it's 929am
>


Red it almost sounds as if you have some kind of worm or bug in the tank
capable of attacking the fry. I just got rid of the last of my Kribs from a
spawning about 4 months ago. I had about 150 of them. I now have another
spawn swimming around the tank and it appears to be about the same number so
if you are only getting a dozen there is something wrong in the tank. On my
first spawn the male started to eat the fry so I removed him. I have a
different male this time and the female has him isolated under a piece of
driftwood. Poor guy has trouble even coming out for some flake food before
he is chased back.

Rick

[RedForeman ©®]

|| "RedForeman ©®" > wrote in message
||| Second batch, nearly a dozen.. They'd not been eating well, not
||| sure why.... Last night when I went to feed them, I saw sevearal
||| white bodies, floating and some on the bottom... but a few were
||| swimming... :-(
|||
||| I picked up a body and examined it with a magnifying glass, and
||| just beneath it's gills, was a hole, rimmed in black, ate up in a
||| way, but not possible.. unless it was a MTS, cuz that's all that
||| was in with them...
|||
||| 9 of 12 were dead then, the other 3 weren't far behind.... Not
||| entirely sure what it was....
|||
||| btw, it's 929am
|||
||
||
|| Red it almost sounds as if you have some kind of worm or bug in the
|| tank capable of attacking the fry.

that's what I was thinking... I'm going to tear the tank down for
maintenance anyway, and a sterile cleaning will be done....

just sucked...

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is that better??

[AAAlias]

"RedForeman ©®" > wrote in message
...

> that's what I was thinking... I'm going to tear the tank down for
> maintenance anyway, and a sterile cleaning will be done....

Just curiourios. How do you do that aside from taking the tank outside
and cleaning it with water and bleach and then a very complete hosing.
Same thing for the gravel, filters, pumps, piping etc. and artificial
plants. Anything living gets thrown out.

[RedForeman ©®]

|| "RedForeman ©®" > wrote in message
||
||| that's what I was thinking... I'm going to tear the tank down for
||| maintenance anyway, and a sterile cleaning will be done....
||
|| Just curiourios. How do you do that aside from taking the tank
|| outside and cleaning it with water and bleach and then a very
|| complete hosing. Same thing for the gravel, filters, pumps, piping
|| etc. and artificial plants. Anything living gets thrown out.

the filters will be kept, but cleaned in non chlorinated water, room temp,
etc.... the gravel will get a good washing, but not bleached... actually no
bleaching at all, I may have mis-stated that earlier...

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is that better??