Cleaning fish tank with babies? Breeding box?
27 January 2010
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I transferred the TINIEST baby fish into another tank once I found them. Since I can't use the filter (it'll suck em up apparently) the tank it GROSS and SMELLY and it NEEDS to be cleaned. I can't use my python to suck up water around them though, they are too tiny I'd end up sucking some up. So can I use a breeding box? Catch them, put them in it, and clean the tank. Do I keep them in the breeding box? Til they are a little bigger and have color so I can actually see them? Can I choose the size? Of the breeding box? I don't want to cramp them too much. Just want to make it so they have a clean tank.
Keep your babies in the same tank as the parents. They will become familiar with those surroundings and water conditions. This way, when they become large enough to release into the tank, they will not become nearly as stressed by switching tanks. What you need is called a Breeders Net (linked below).
Best of luck,
swimmer
Go to the pet store and buy a sponge filter. This will enable you to have a filter running without sucking the babies up in it.
Get yourself a filter for the tank. Cover the intake tube with either a mesh filter media bag you can get at the pet store, just loop it around and knot it closed at the top, a pair of knee hi nylons will work the same as well, or a filter sponge can be cut to fit and tied on the intake tube with some thread. Also, get a smaller manual gravel vacuum to use on that tank instead of a python.
The problem with breeding boxes, even the nylon net ones, they don’t allow much water flow through, they get dirty very quickly, and they can be difficult to clean if you have a lot of fry in there.
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