stillborn fry?

Looks like total of 15 dead, still only found one survivor, looks to be comparatively small in regards to some of the dead
fry. the mother is definitely *way* deflated, but hard to imagine she really had that many largish fry in her..some of the
dead have wispy things attached to their abdomens..do livebearer fish have umbilicals or the equivalent?
"Far Thunder" wrote in message ...
Hau kolas..well my hugely pregnant female a. splendens finally had her fry last night..however it looks like most of them
were either DOA or died soon thereafter..I have found one survivor, the rest, perhaps 6 or so I found lying at the bottom of
the tank in some live plant cover. Water test fine, there are predators, and in fact there are several swordtail fry swimming
around smaller than the new a. splendens fry. The dead fry are not munched upon and don't appear to have suffered any
trauma..any telltale signs if they were stillborn? the sole survivor was at the surface in floating plant cover. this is the
female's second batch of fry; I had assumed the fry from the first batch had been made short order of, being as they were
born in an African cichlid tank. I Thought I was being more proactive this time around..any guesses? ammonia=0 nitrate=0
nitrate=10 ph=7 kh=3 gh=10, heavily planted. Swordtail fry, 1 molly fry 1", and 3 small skunk botias 1.5" max are tankmates.
TIA. off to look for any more survivors.

lila pilamaya


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