I so hope they are there still. And if the salinity is to high I think the right attitude would be to adjust it more than once a week in the future. So you do not get to this point again. Because you will, and even longer next time! :celeb3: They are so cool looking!
That would be the right attitude to get it done. Had I known I they were in there I might have done that. But really I'm just too busy with too many small containers of crap laying around.
In addition to the 3 regular tanks. I have a bucket of pods, a square container with amphipods, 3 gallon containers of apocyclops, 2 of euterpine, 1 of tisbe/mixed. 8 bottles of phyto. a 1 1/2 gallon quarantine container for my seahorse.
and a daughter in school and looking at colleges (but not organized so needs attention). 20 chickens. a dog. 3 cats. a butterfly garden. a hubby and I teach school so I have night phone calls, grading, planning, test making. Normal chores like occasionally making dinner, mowing the lawn and I tend to be on the lazy side. so..... I usually adjust the not ATO stuff once a week.
Can't wait til I can quit and do this full time in like a hundred years. Right now it is just a hobby. I couldn't see any yesterday or this morning so I added eggs to the tisbe tank (now salinity adjusted) and I'll keep an eye on the salinity every 2 days since I know there are eggs in there.
On another forum the starvation is pegged at 6-7 days so maybe I'm not making it out of starvation. Maybe mine are being killed by bacteria or something. Next batch of eggs I'm going to do another run at starvation but I"m going to put some hydrogen peroxide in the water that is first collect and then use the microscope to check development and see if I can pin starvation at 2 days or come up with a different reason why they are making it to 7 days. That batch should be tonight. Kathy has made it to like 17 days so now I have a goal. She used Parvo's I really need to figure out how to keep my iso from getting contaminated though that will have to wait til after I get my Barbouri's out of quarantine and into their new tank.