I know many of y'all have other critters besides just kitties. I got into aquariums, basically planted tanks, about a year ago. Late last fall I got a pair of Blue Rams. These fish are supposed to be sort of "intermediate" fish. They spawned, several times. And then to my absolute astonishment one of the spawns hatched! Water parameters have to be just right for the eggs of these fish to develop and hatch, and then I'd read how difficult the babies are (especially for a novice) to raise. I wasn't really prepared as I hadn't been expecting any to hatch, but I followed the advice given me on another forum in response to my frantic query and actually succeeded in keeping them alive and growing them up for the past month.
Until today
. I went to feed them this morning and all my babies were dead! Wahhh
!!!
There were about 15 survivors out of the spawn. I had just started feeding them commercially frozen baby brine shrimp in the last couple of days instead of the stuff I was raising, and had actually breathed a sigh of relief hoping I could close the "shrimp hatcheries" down. I was so proud of myself, I thought I was actually going to get these fish to adulthood. I can only guess that the commercial food had something to do with it.
I am really bummed right now
. I mean they were "only" fish, but still ....
Until today
There were about 15 survivors out of the spawn. I had just started feeding them commercially frozen baby brine shrimp in the last couple of days instead of the stuff I was raising, and had actually breathed a sigh of relief hoping I could close the "shrimp hatcheries" down. I was so proud of myself, I thought I was actually going to get these fish to adulthood. I can only guess that the commercial food had something to do with it.
I am really bummed right now