MrJim's Fishworks

**MrJim** · 08-27-2009, 04:16 AM

The male gup wouldn't leave the female alone, and yeah I need to have another female or two in there but didn't want to introduce any new fish to the tank since there are fry in there so I came up with a solution. I acclimatized him into the 29...he's so energetic about chasing the female maybe he can play his grab a$$ games with the danios for awhile

**MrJim** · 08-27-2009, 04:19 PM

I'm surprised~the male guppy is not intimidated all all by the danios~I watch him go nose-to-nose with them and the danio turns away...he really is a little studmuffin

**MrJim** · 08-28-2009, 04:07 PM

Late last night we found another fry just hangin' round outside the breeder trap..now I'm wondering how many got sucked into the filters..

**MrJim** · 09-06-2009, 01:12 PM

Almost two weeks later and the fry are doing well...still have them in the breeder trap. I use some airline and "vac" the bottom of the trap, and I flush the trap several times a day to make sure fresh water gets in. The mother hangs around it~it would be nice to think she's checking on her kids; she's probably just smelling food..

**MrJim** · 09-06-2009, 08:12 PM

Changed the 10 gal to a sand bottom since it seems it's gonna be a cory tank~~had plenty of black/white sand left over...figuring the corys aren't gonna be blowing sand all around like the comet did, and the pickup tube is much higher than the AC70 was in the 20L so we'll see how it goes.

**MrJim** · 09-07-2009, 10:00 PM

I took the sponge off the pickup tube~sand jammed the impellor by late afternoon...I guess I'll leave the sponge on awhile.

**MrJim** · 09-21-2009, 07:58 PM

I finally got some pool filter sand~I can see why folks like it, and it sure was clean. I rinsed it and there was no dirt, just a bit of color--so far so good..the measure is whether it will stay down and not get pulled up into the AC filter--put it into the 10 gal, we'll see if the corys like it.