Reidi Fry Help

[Wink]

Normally, the very top of the bowl is above the water. The water level needs to be right at the neck of the bowl to cause the proper "ferris wheel" motion.

I have heard of people trying to completely submerge the bowl with netting over the top but I don't remember seeing any success stories for that. Anyone here tried it?

 

[porky]

I have heard of people trying to completely submerge the bowl with netting over the top but I don't remember seeing any success stories for that. Anyone here tried it?

That is actually what I thought about doing with the netting, I planned on using just regular screen that would be used for a screen door.
Anyone know if this stuff is reef safe?

 

[Mantis]

Porky, I think your going to have a problem with your glass fish bowl. With the plastic ones you cut a hole in the side near the bottom and put a bubbler just above the hole. Then you cut a hole in the other side at the top where the water escapes as it's going around in a circle

I don't know how you could exchange water using your glass bowl.

I found plastic ones for 3 bucks online, I'm thinking about trying to raise some of my True Percula fry this way.

 

[porky]

Thanks Brad!
Okay that makes sense about the plastic bowls. I may end up going that route, the goal was to not spend any money and try to do this w/existing equipment I had lying around.
What are your thoughts about keeping the bowl submerged but covered with some kind of a net?

 

[Wink]

You can use the glass bowl as a stand-alone tank and suction cup the airline to the end. Of course, you wouldn't be able to test the submerging method.

I'm currently trying the stand alone version with some reidi fry born Wednesday. You lose the benefits of the larger water volume and I figure I'll be doing massive water changes but I got the chance to adopt the fry and don't have the 10 gallon cycled. We used this method somewhat sucessfully with a brood of tigertails a couple of years ago.

 

[DanU]

Don't use window screen. The mesh is too large. You will need to drop the mesh size down to 600 or microns to prevent the fry from getting through.

Dan