Reply To: Unfortunate spawning incident

[Abhijit S]

#29977

For the male, on his third attempt at spawning, although with a different female, he did care for the eggs and the fry for 5 days after hatching. Unfortunately not a single fry became free swimming and I lost the entire spawn due to starvation. (The male did not give up caring for them until I removed him after loosing all the hope.) I read an article somewhere in technical assistance library that this may happen due to quality / hardness of water but I am not sure.

For the female, she is still doing fine with one eye and I had her spawned successfully with another first timer male. This spawn also suffered from not all fry becoming free swimming and could have lost entire spawn if I had not noticed that male had just started eating the fry one by one on day 3. By this time a few fry were free swimming so I decided to removed the male and managed to save about 30-35 fry. They are 3 weeks old now and about 25 of them are swimming normally. The remaining ones are alive and eating but they are showing the swim bladder problem. Not that I over fed them but they never reached the free swimming stage since they hatched.