What should i do with a pregnant fish?

Question

I know mothwe fish can eat there babies. I put it into another tank. Only its a warm water fish and i dont have another heater. Plus i have no other stuff for a new babie to hid in until i can transfer it. What should i do?

Answer 1

It is very important what kind of fish you have. Live bearers are easy to breed and the babies will be fine with out being separated. I've kept fish for years and I've never seen a live bearer eat their babies, even if there are other ones in the tank besides "mom".
If your fish lays eggs that may be another story. If they are stressed or feel threatened in any way they will eat the eggs rather than let a predator have them. That being said if I were you I would attempt to at least try to let your fish take care of their own young because they can do it much better than you can! If this fails you could always try separating the eggs next time. You need to make sure there are lots of clean surfaces in the tank (plants, rocks, driftwood) at every level from deep to shallow so the fish have lots of places to hide and a choice of places to lay the eggs. Turn off the light, and Do Not Disturb! any more than you have to till after the babies are born. By the way you need to get fish food from the pet store that's made for baby fish. The regular stuff is too big for them.

Answer 2

What type of fish do you have? Unless it's a guppy, platy, swordtail, or molly, the fish will lay eggs, not give birth to live young.

If this is a livebearer, do you have an aquarium net? If it's large enough, you might be able to sit it across the top of the tank so the net hangs down in the water. You could temporarily separate mother and babies this way, once the fry are born.

Another thing you might try if you have some yarn or cotton string is to make a spawning mop. Wroap the yarn around a book several times, then cut the yarn on one side of the book only, and tie all the strands together. Hook this over a stick or something that can be put across the top of your tank - the babies will hide in the strands. It would be best to make a few of these. Spawning mops are generally made for fish to lay eggs on, so they can be mved to another tank, but I think it would work for hiding fry as well.

Spawning mop directions with photos:

Answer 3

I've seen small plastic containers with slits in the sides that you can attach to the side of your tank so you don't have to take your pregnant fish out of the water it's grown accustomed to.
The idea is that you put your pregnant fish in the container and when it has babies, they can swim out of the little slots and get away before they're eaten. You just keep the mother in the separate container until the babies are big enough to fend for themselves. (I'm sure if you go to Petsmart they'll know what container you need)

Answer 4

I bought a little net for the mother to swim in when she was close to giving birth. Once she gave birth, we'd transfer back into the bigger tank and leave the babies in the little tank until they got big enough to swim with the others.

Answer 5

when ur putting the eggs of fish into something else, wrap a blanket around it, they dont need air they have water:)
so to keep it warm, wrap something around it that will keep it hot, even if u have the things u put on your backk to keep it hot, u can use those too.

Answer 6

Take it to a Lamaze class.

Answer 7

take it to Lamaze class

Answer 8

have cavier for supper...jkn...u should seperate the eggs from the mother after they have been fertilized

Answer 9

keep it.