An Aquarium Experiment

**Rue** · 06-15-2007, 06:34 PM

Someone was going to flush a bunch of livebearer fry...so I brought some home...

Of course, no where to put them...so I put them in the little 2.5g snail holding tank I recently bought to house snails for the pufferfish.

There's a mix of some 12-15 guppies, platies, mollies and swords...

Brought them home Wednesday...so far they're all alive. I moved the tank up stairs where it's warmer...and I'll look to see if I can find my old sponge filter.

So, I'm going to try and rear them in the little tank. If they all survive...I'll have to give some away...I can house a few in the 25g community, but not all of them...if I do a huge waterchange every other day, it might keep parameters good...I can test and see...

**gm72** · 06-15-2007, 08:16 PM

Sounds like a lot of fun! Keep us posted!

**Rue** · 06-23-2007, 03:05 PM

All the babies are growing!

All I'm doing is feeding them regular food...just making sure it's in small enough bits...and doing water changes...that's it!

**cocoa_pleco** · 06-23-2007, 03:07 PM

lol, all the snails on the right are going "mmmmmmmm, bread!"

**Lady Hobbs** · 06-23-2007, 03:18 PM

LOL Quite a group you have going for ya. Nice of you to rescue these little guys. I hope the store gave them to you for being so nice.

**Rue** · 06-23-2007, 03:29 PM

...it does look like they're eyeing the bread!

Oh yes! They were definately free! The tank is mainly to hold snails for the puffers...but I thought I'd see how it goes for the fry...

Not sure what to do if they all make it...I can keep a couple of platies or mollies...but I don't have room for all of them...

...and NO! Not another tank...lol...a wise person knows when enough is enough (or so I tell myself)...