is this normal, if its not what could of caused it
2007-06-27 16:15:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
i have a breding tank inside my original tank with a grate in the bottom for the egg/baby fish to come out of there eggs. the mother couldnt of killed them, because she couldnt reach them
2007-06-28 12:03:26 · update #1
Yes it is absolutely normal for the dead ones to turn white, that means you definately know that they are dead and you need to take them out of the tank
Surviving fry will not loose their color
hope that answered your question
feel free to email me if you need more info
Good luck
EB
2007-06-27 19:02:51 · answer #1 · answered by Kribensis lover 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is that female swordtails, being live bearers, are nervous in tanks less than about 20 gal or more, and when gravid, they dart fast and hard into the glass which bumbs the little (fry) inside the cavity and kills them. And this is the way of things. Nature calls this the wisdom of species survival. Now, if the tank would have been 100 gallons ,and half of it were filled with protective plants for the young, and if the invironment had pleanty of living foods for the young, and if the mother,(simple and unattractively green as she is) did not suffer anxiety everytime you looked at her with those monstrous eyes of yours, and if you did not keep changing the length of the days and nights by fiddeling around like some misguided god-trainee, (sorry-Im a tough teacher),then, perhaps, she would not have killed her fry. Fish are not as simple as you might believe, but they are tasty are they not? I can be humerous, actually we eat humans not fishes. Any way, the white is a cotton-like mold/spore from tank parasites and you should remove the dead and flush. rdmlawsky147@yahoo.com p.s. I have left the e-mail address for you because I am an expert in this field and had 44 tanks. (44) the least of which was 20 gallons and the largest was 500 gallons at 8.5 lbs/gal=4000lbs +.Sooooooooooooo RSVPT-Richard
2007-06-27 16:47:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
take them out of the tank so they don't spoil the water for the living ones.
2007-06-27 16:20:48 · answer #3 · answered by Kiki B 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
if they died then it's time to take them out and flush them...
2007-06-27 16:23:06 · answer #4 · answered by Sharp Marble 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i dunno do i look like a rocket scintist
2007-06-27 16:17:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋