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I have several 2 week old Trifasciata fry in a 30 gallon tank. What is the best way to transfer them into a larger tank? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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I use a 3/4 inch hose as a siphon. Smaller hoses (like on a gravel vac) don't flow fast enough to catch the little buggers.
Don't plug the hose with your thumb! The resulting decompression will kill any babies still in the hose.
I do this when mom has a whole batch of babies and I want to nab 10 - 30 of 'em to raise seperately. Might not work so well if there's a smaller number of targets and you have to hunt more for 'em.
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Don't plug the hose with your thumb! The resulting decompression will kill any babies still in the hose.
I do this when mom has a whole batch of babies and I want to nab 10 - 30 of 'em to raise seperately. Might not work so well if there's a smaller number of targets and you have to hunt more for 'em.
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With fry that are that young I use a piece of rigid airline tubing attached to a length of flexible airline. I place the end of the flexible airline in my mouth and suck the fry up into the rigid tubing, then quickly transfer them to a small dish. i have never had any problems holding fry in the tube during transfer.
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Thank you...that is what I thought, but wasn't sure. Thank you!
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