An update!
All the babies have been eaten! The parents did a valiant job protecting however whenever I fed the tank the parents would abandon post (How greedy  ) and 9 days after free swimming the last few babies disappeared.
I didn't have time to setup a new tank for the 13 babies I had in the trap so I released them back to the parents.
Its all been a fascinating learning experience and next time I will be ready to remove the fry and get them into a grow on! I've got the 30 Gal empty so that would be the perfect tank to setup and get cycling.
I've lowered the temp in the tank now back to 23-24C so they are unlikely to spawn again for now, the original trigger did seem to be the flat stone on the gravel and raising to 28C
Watch this space.....
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55 Gallon - 2 Blue Acara, 1 Neon Sword tails, 4 Cory Rabauti, 7 Tiger Barbs, 1 RTB Shark, 1 Albino BN, 1 normal BN
15 Gallon - 10 sword tail growing babies and 2 Chain loach
30 Gal Empty
10 Gal Empty
Last edited by Lovingmytank; 05-29-2008 at 07:15 AM.
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