So my pair of Ascension Gobies who I rarely see outside of feeding time bred & the fry hatched tonight! I don’t have anything on hand to take care of the babies right now & there are hundreds of them. I also have a pair of Ruby Red Dragonettes & the female has gotten pretty fat, very quickly.
I didn’t really have any huge aspirations of breeding fish but I’d like to save these babies if I can!
What types of equipment is needed to take care of these little guys?
I have frozen cubes of baby brine shrimp but these guys are hardly larger than the BBS. I also have a 2 1/2g tank with a HOB whisper filter & a small 50w heater. Would any of that work for these guys, even short term, while I can get the correct supplies?
Would a breeder net inside their same tank be a better idea? I don’t even know how I’m going to get them out of my tank. I have a net, of course but I just imagine them getting stuck in the netting & hurting them.
Lights are already off for the night (which I understand is when they like to hatch) so I’m not too worried about them immediately being eaten by the other fish. Maybe I should be??
Other fish in this tank: pair of clowns & a bicolor Dottyback.
I didn’t really have any huge aspirations of breeding fish but I’d like to save these babies if I can!
What types of equipment is needed to take care of these little guys?
I have frozen cubes of baby brine shrimp but these guys are hardly larger than the BBS. I also have a 2 1/2g tank with a HOB whisper filter & a small 50w heater. Would any of that work for these guys, even short term, while I can get the correct supplies?
Would a breeder net inside their same tank be a better idea? I don’t even know how I’m going to get them out of my tank. I have a net, of course but I just imagine them getting stuck in the netting & hurting them.
Lights are already off for the night (which I understand is when they like to hatch) so I’m not too worried about them immediately being eaten by the other fish. Maybe I should be??
Other fish in this tank: pair of clowns & a bicolor Dottyback.