Fry dieing

[Julez]

I have a bunch of protomelas stevani taiwan babys... they were all doing fine untill i started feeding nls grow... now all the bigger ones are dieing??!! Whats the deal??!!

[RustyNut]

I use NLS growth formula all the time... it should not be the food. Unless you have contamination or something.

There may be other issues arising. Have you checked water parameters? Did you do anything recently or change anything else? Perhaps used a aerosol household cleaner in the room? Anything?

[deptchief]

sorry to hear ur loosing fry julez..........

[Heyguy74]

Are you touching the food with wet fingers? Wet food will get bad really quick. The fry may be small enough that its poisoning them quickly.

Alsoa what size tank are they in/ And what size are the fry? If the tank is too small they will start to make room for themselves as the grow. They make room by killing each other off.

When the last time you did a water change? Fry are also more sensitive to bad water. They don't do well at all with ammonia in the water.

[Julez]

nothing different... food should be fine... the fry are only about 1/4 (the ones that are living) but the ones that have been dieing are about an inch... (almost) I tried to move all the bigger ones to the big tank, to make room for the itty bittys, but i couldnt catch all the little buggers... and now the other tank has the "ichness" (which seems to be getting better today!!:m::m: )

the only thing I can think of is that i had skipped a water change last week... (mom and daughter were in car accident, UDcatfish got whooped and died, tanks got ichified) so I think that maybe I will do another change tomarrow, (did one yesterday) and keep my fingerrs crossed.. I was forced to add some baby katale in there yesterday, as I am iched in the tank that was planned for them.... AHHHHH!! I dont even know why I like fish after this last week!!!!!!!:dead::saw: