Today I took 100 pics of my fry, 3 turned out good, have to share!

This is Goldie, the most colorful of them!


My masterpiece, two faces staring at you! Carpus, the biggest one!


Both of them + Comet to the right! (+ one of their snailie friends!)


The other five were too fast for my camera, they were just tiny blurrs...
Next time...

They are so cute! Goldie is very colorful!

I go nuts taking pics of my fish, only to find that none or only a few were good enough to use, like you said happened. The fish are either going crazy because they see me and start begging for food or you have one particular fish that is a camera hog and always glued to the glass, looking out of focus because you were focused in on other fish.

Thanks for sharing your pics!

Thanks!

Oh Annette they are looking great!!

Thanks so much for sharing!

Sweet....nice shots....

Beautiful pics! You are so clever to get them to that size! Goldie is sooo pretty and Carpus looks so sweet and a little shy even tho' he's a big one! Thay are adoreable. Wish I had the same success story with fry....Well done Anette!

You're absolutely right about that, Carpus is a little shy and he swims away when I point my finger at him! So this pic is a miracle, I use close up mode without flash, gets close to the glass and use the "three-pics-at-a-time" function and this one turned out good, I yelled of happiness when I saw this little face on the screen!

Awww Anette, they beautiful

They look so healthy also Is there anything you have to do when they're fry to keep them healthy? I'm talking about when they're all transparent little bodies with 2 big eyes (roughly 2 weeks old)...

Well, I've learned that water must be perfect, otherwise they'll die... And there are a lot of places where a little fry can get stuck, I have saved fry from the filter many times... I read about your little fry, good luck!

Lol - thanks Anette I've got him in a little 5 gal and am running a small hang on filter. I ended up putting pantyhose around the bottom of the intake in the hope he won't get stuck although he seems to like hanging over the other side of the tank. There's been a few times i've looked in and thought "huh? he seems to have disappeared!" then his tiny little body will show itself

I hope he grows like your fry - you must take great care of them

Congrats was that your 2.000nd post??

Lol - I believe so

I shouldn't talk about my fry, now Monster's acting weird, resting at the bottom, swimming only close to the bottom, she doesn't look good...

She does not look good at all...

She is up swimming and eating again!

Great news Annette!! What a relief!

Phew! That's a major relief I was rooting for her! She still doing OK? They're all so cute!

No, unfortunately not... I found her laying on her side... she's dying...

Oh dear, Annette. What a rough couple of weeks this has been for you.

Hope you are doing OK.

In Sweden we say all bad things are three, hopefully my bad luck will change now, this year hasn't started out good...

Oh no Anette - it's virtually impossible to treat fry isn't it? Do you think there's any chance she may pull through?

My monster fry is dead. Sorrow and sadness. That was a special fry, with the double tail, she was the biggest of my fry until Carpus outgrow her. There were 2 monster fry from the beginning, the first one I killed with bad water quality, the fry tank weren't cycled then... well now she has joined her brothers/sisters... I think it's almost impossible to treat fry... don't know what was wrong, hope the others will keep on their healthy lives... they look so good...

I'm very sorry to hear that Anette.Being that everyone else is doing so well,Monster must have had internal probs that just couldn't be seen.Know that you did your best,& good luck with the other's.They look so cute.

Aww, i'm sorry Anette I hope your other guys continue to thrive, they're such lookers

Yes I buried her next to Maxi I think so to, there was something wrong from the beginning. I will keep all six to my self and hope they grow big, there is room enough in the pond.

Some new pics, this is Mera, Goldie and the reflection of Carpus!


This is LoFi (LowFin!)

Awww - too cute and they look so very healthy, which is good news

How many cms would they be now Anette? And about how old? My tub fry is still a speck of a little fella although he's growing well - no more than 1cm tip to tail and i'm trying to figure his rate of growth based on your little guys I'm totally clueless with fry. Also, when did you start to feed them solid food?

PS. sorry for all the questions

Hi! Carpus, the biggest and fattest is 4 cm from tip to tailfin, the others just a bit smaller. They will be 8 months the last of march. They eat TetraMin Baby Powder Food, but they can also eat goldfish flakes! They don't grow rapidly, but when I look at old pics I realize how much they have grown...

Lol - thanks Anette

I'm so glad your little guys are looking so well not to mention just too darn cute

Yes they are, it's difficult to feed them cause I always get stuck there I love looking at them when they're chasing food... They have little personalitys already, Goldie is the kindest and always comes to greet me, but they all comes to the glass and dances in the morning at breakfast time...