babies not finding parents

[aaron1828]

hi i've had two spawns of free swimers already but the babies fail to find the parents, but you can see a few eating off the parents at time but then they swim off again. The parents are not very dark in colour is that maybe a problem? it doesn't seem that the parents are ignoring the babies as the parents keeps siting where the main group of babies are waiting for them to attach. Any help or hints are much appreciated.

thanks

[samir]

how about a picture of your tank

[aaron1828]

hi its just a standard 18x18x24 with a pot and a conner filter.

[bigslow]

lower the water level to make it easy to fined the adults. less wandering around the tank.

You can bring the water back up after they attach.

I have to do this the white diamonds.

[samir]

a pic would be nice. what strain ? age ?

[scott bowler]

aaron1828 hi and welcome to the forum mate .ok well it is a good idea to drop the water level and do you have any black or dark things in the tank that my be catching the eye of the fry?. like samir has asked what strain are they he is asking becouse some of the lighter strains have this problem for some reason.so if you let us know that someone maybe able to help more scott

[aaron1828]

ill try and get some pics up later on in the week, as for the breed they are pigeon blood approx 18 months. i had a black sponge filter in it but i took that out after the first batch was attracted to it. I might give the lower water level a go. thanks for the tips

[samir]

next time, put some white paper on all sides of the tank and drop water to about a couple of cm higher than the pair. if you don't feed after they spawn till wrigglers attach you will get by on an airstone. on the other hand you can remove the sponge.

[Crocky]

Turn the tank light on and leave it on for 10 full days.
The brighter the better and you wont have any wrigglers going for the dark corner of your tank.
Works for me.

Brad

[aaron1828]