I think I messed up!

[The Guy]

I moved some 2 week old parrot fry into a tank I'm using for grow out, I also have some plecoes, cories, and 1 rubber lip plecoe in that tank, when I put them in they went to the bottom as they do when ever they get put into a new tank enviroment and were in a huddle in 1 corner. They seemed to be doing ok. This morning most were gone. My question is : would bottom guys go after them if too small, I think they did. Boy did I screw up or what,
I guess you learn by your mistakes, won't happen again.

[charles]

what you listed should not go after the fry is they are somewhat decent size. They might have died from different water and their bodies were being eaten.

[Diztrbd1]

Sorry to hear that happened Laurie. We definitely learn from our mistakes, if we know what the mistake was. My guess is Charles is probably right.

[fishykisses]

same thing happened here too only it was 2 batches - well over 100 babies are in the tummies of some larger fish.

[jobber604]

Sad to hear about the fry loss Laurie. I think with any fish fries, they become stress easily and are prone to changes in water parameters as Charles mentioned. I think the culprit may have been just the stress of moving into a new tank and then having to deal with the stress of other fish, thus the behaviour of huddling to one corner. If you have a new batch in the future, I'd probably suggest raising them to a decent size before introducing them into the community tank. Hope to hear you got a new batch and successful school of parrots in the new year