*Journal* Raising Queen's Babies

[Kalei]

So today is I think the fifth day since Queen has had her eggs and now they are all hatched! I have been feeding them several times a day and changing the water regularly. And have lots of oxygen going in for them. I keep looking at them all the time to make sure they aren't dying. And so far there is still about 10 or more babies that are very alive and swimming around and eating! I'm so happy. So far everything is going right. Here is a pic of the little tank they are in.

As I warned before..the tank is really nothing to look at lol, there's no gravel or many plants, its basically just a plain tank with the bubbler in it and the babies and a few floating plants. But I got a couple of pics of the tank. I tried to take a pic of some babies but they are still yet too small for a camera to pick up. Soon they will be bigger I think they are suppose to grow to a bigger size by two weeks. Here is the little tank.

Once the babies are big enough that I can move them and not hurt any of them, I will set up the tank with some gravel and more plants and make it pertier, but right now I would crush many babies if I tried to put gravel in lol.

Oh I was also wondering. My bubbler creates quite a current in the tank that the little babies have a hard time swimming against, so they stick to the plants and wall...is the current too hard on them, should I take it away or will they be fine?

Thanks everyone for all the help! I keep finding more babies swimming around in the fifty gallon too...and everytime I see one helplessly swimming around in there I catch him with a cup and put him gently into the baby tank

[Chilli]

Aww, I bet they're cute! =]
I've never raised fish from that little, so I'm not sure what to suggest about the bubbler.. maybe just make sure there is plenty of plants to decrease the strength of the current. Though I'm sure someone else can give you better advise.

Either way, Good luck! I look forward to seeing the little guys once they're a bit older.

[Freedom]

The filters I have used had an adjustment so you could control the amount of the flow.

If you don't have that type of filter, maybe you can set it up so that it is close to a wall and the harshest of the flow goes into the wall and richoches (sp?) off to keep the rest of the tank moving and aerated. That may be easier for them to handle.

[Genny]

Can yopu send pictures of them--I've never seen baby goldfish before! My angel fish laid eggs and they hatched about 2 months ago, but they grow soooo slow. /can you keep the GF babies in with the mom? Our mom angel fish won't eat her babies...they have grown a lot though and look like teeny tiny angel fish!

[IRescue452]

Is it just an air stone attached to an air pump?

[chocolatepuppy]

How exciting! I can't wait until the babies are big enough to get good pictures! How lucky they will be if they are half as pretty as Queen.

[Kalei]

Just thought I would update you all on the babies! They are all still doing great. The other day I went out and bought some new rocks so that I could set up their tank properly. Sooo...I went through the loooong process of taking ever single baby out of the tank with a cup (there is like 40 or more babies) and putting them into a giant bucket which I had filled with their water. And then I cleaned out the tank and set it up nicely and put the chlorine out stuff in it and a nice little underground sponge filter so that the tank stays cleaner and they have constant bubbles giving them oxygen.

And then I put all the babies back in. They are all as happy as can be and love their newly decorated home I took some pictures of the tank and also got some pics of the babies. Don't get too excited, you can't really see them well, they are still sooo small, but I was able to pick up their little blurry blobbed bodies! So here are some pics of the new decorated baby tank and a few blurry babies.

This one is the best picture I have, you can see two babies by the plant

And here is the tank.

The tank water is always a little cloudy after feeding them that yucky liquid food.

And that's all for now!

[Argranade]

Aww there so tiny lol,

We had a giant fish tank before a long time ago,

I bought a pregnet fish and she had babies, they all died except for 2 lol.

Then there was one because one jumped out of the tank and when the other got a little bigger we moved it to the huge tank and one day my dad killed it by mistake from getting it clocked in the tank vacume --_--''

Well I was only like 10 and didn't know much about fish lol.

Can't wait to see what your look like when they get bigger!

[Kalei]

Thanks very much Argranade!

[chocolatepuppy]

It's going to be so much fun watching the babies grow!

[Flatcoatluver]

Aww they are so cute! Congrats! How big is there tanks there in?

I just bought 3 female guppys and now I find out there .... preggy.. ahhh!