My last post was a video of Autumn laying eggs. I didn't realize any of them had been fertilized until a few days later when I saw small little fry swimming in my tank. I was able to carefully take ten of them out of the main tank.
Overnight three of them didn't make it. When I looked at them closely I noticed they weren't developed properly. I had seven left and during week two I noticed two of them struggling to swim to the surface. I separated these two into an area with more shallow water hoping to reduce the water pressure on them and giving them a better chance to make it to the surface.
Unfortunately, I left them unattended on my counter top for a minute while I was making a custom lid for their make shift holding tank. I came back to find my black and white cat, Duo, playing with them.
So, I have five fry at week three heading into week four. Each of the five remaining fry are doing well. Four of the five look like they have excellent potential to be beautiful butterfly goldfish. I hope at least one of these four is a purple butterfly goldfish like their Mama!
The fifth fry was born with a single tail and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with him yet.
Prada, my tricolor butterfly, went home with a fellow goldfish enthusiast. Rio and Midget have also been rehomed. I had these three with three more in my 45 gallon and the bio load on the tank was just to much as each of the fish have grown so much over these past eight months.
Jewel, my red and white butterfly, had a mouth sore she got during a routine weekly water change a couple of weeks ago.
I've been doing a 0.3% salt solution and she is almost completely healed.
I've ventured into the world of Betta tanks and have had Draco, a male red crown tail Betta for a month now. He lives in an eight gallon tank.
Here is the link to the video. I hope you enjoy it!
