"Gill Passman" wrote in message
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its only in the past few months its got this bad, I have no idea why
they
are surviving so well, I have 2 plecs and 2 synodontis which I thought
would
help but the young are very very good at hiding even getting them out of
the
tank is like a military operation thats why I leave it as long as
possible
so as not to disrupt the fish too often, although at one point we were
removing 20+ young every three weeks, i'm desperate now, if only there
was
the fish equivalent of bromide!



Know what you mean about the bromide - LOL

My tank hasn't quite got as bad as you describe but there are rather a
lot of fry of varying sizes - I haven't taken any to the LFS yet mainly
because the thought of tearing down the rock work to catch them is quite
daunting. I checked on the synodontis and am wondering if I might get
some of these to help control things before it gets too bad.

Gill

the first few times were hell as I had loads of rock in there, i've had to
cut it down to try and reduce the number of hiding spaces, what hasn't
helped id the plecs/synos are not interested in the young so they are
happily swimming round and only hiding when an adult decides to chase them a
bit.
what makes fishing them out even worse is that the tank is over 2ft deep and
even standing on a ladder I can hardly reach some of the rock

Chelle(posting from her husbands email)