A couple new videos now that all the babies are settled out.
The first video is sort of a mixed bag of fish... It has the first fish to settle from the 4/11 hatch, he is pretty large. And it has the first 3 fish to settle from the 4/18 hatch, one is fully colored and the other two are still partially colored. There is also a larva in there from the 4/11 hatch that STILL hasn't settled:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0DpGmRhi0M The second video is the remaining babies from 4/18. Besides the 3 in the first tank in the video above, there were an additional 11 survivors in this tank. Unfortunately when I was moving some things around I set an airstone on top of one of them and didn't notice until the next day- so now there are 10.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkP-_x9cgAM The fish from the 4/11 hatch are a little "off". Around mid 20 days-post-hatch everything was fine and I had a solid 10-12 larva. Then over the course of a week or so I'd lose a fish or two a day. I suspected some sort of disease. Then the first larva to settle had the cottonmouth issue that I mentioned before. He still hasn't really fully recovered. He has a white speck under his chin where the gill meets up, and the gill that it's on really flares up when he breathes. I've treated with QuickCure for a week and triple sulfa for a full course (4 days of treatment) but no change. I'm going to try some copper this week.
The other fish from that hatch is the larva that still hasnt settled (50 days!). His stomach is getting really thin and I watched him a long time today and he didn't eat anything. I think he is on the way out, and because he is having trouble eating he's not getting the nourishment that he needs to transition.
When the first couple fish settled out from the 4/18 batch I put them in with the 4/11 fish, but then realized this was prob a bad idea if there is some sort of disease with the 4/11's. Fortunately, most of the remaining 4/18 fish settled out about the same time, so I moved the eleven (now ten) 4/18 fish from their 10g to new 20g long tank half filled.
I'm sorry these videos come out so lousy. I have a "pre-digital" camera, and the video looks great until I transfer it to digital and then it gets kind of blurry, and then I have to upload to youtube and it loses a little something there as well...