An Aquarist Dilemma!

[Aqua Pro Builder]

I don't have this issue for a long time since I gave out all my freshwater fish and two 150G tank last year. Saltwater fish does not breed as easily as the freshwater counterparts. So I am blessed without fish over population for a while. However, this dilemma comes back again. I like to paired my clowns(you can stop me from doing this only over my dead body) Pairing takes long time to happen and during the paring, some got beaten so badly they almost die in just one day's fight after a pair decided to date! So what to do? I put the lonely ones in hospital tanks and when the hospital tanks used up and emergency arises, I use buckets until I get new tanks. Now, I have a lot of tanks again!

This problem gets worse when my freshwater love go rampant again. I originally want to selective breed some crystal shrimps but felt victim of the love to fluorescence of some small fresh water fish. But these small fish may (or may not-I don't know-I just worried) eat the baby shrimps so, yesterday, I put them in a Ro-DI overflow tank(this is a large tank that I used to use as a QT for SW. Planning to treat them for parasites before putting them in the discus tank. But today I just found small babies of the fish in my shrimp tank! I don' t want the fish babies that are going to be born soon to be eaten in the discus tank, now. Sighhhhh...... Where do I find space for so many tanks to keep them from being eaten!???

 

[KathyC]

Buy smaller tanks for the fry? :bagfish:

Do you have your tanks sitting so you are looking through the narrow end instead of the long way on a shelf? With deeper shelves you can fit a lot more tanks in!

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Buy smaller tanks for the fry? :bagfish:

Do you have your tanks sitting so you are looking through the narrow end instead of the long way on a shelf? With deeper shelves you can fit a lot more tanks in!

I have two 2G all-in-one pico and two 5G pico in use already. I actually have two more NEW in Box 2G all-in-one pico for emergency use. But I want to switch them for the Hagan EBI 5G pico.

BTW, I have never seen fish babies so small, they are smaller than an adult daphnia. It would only be proper to describe the dimension in sub millimeter. I saw one with length no more than 1.5mm and thickness of a hair! I see multiple sizes of them presumably from different batches of spawn, so I assume they find food in the tank.