Just a quick update today as I really don't have much to report on and I want to work on a couple of articles. Everyone's doing rather well at the moment and I even saw some of the three week olds eat a little frozen yesterday so that's a really great sign. The first two pictures here show the nice red digestive tract of the fry, which shows that they are eating lots.
Over the last couple of days we've had a fairly significant die off from the 1 week olds and this is most likely to be nutritional. I would expect that most of them weren't eating in the first few days and this has had a detrimental effect on their development. That said, we still have a bucket load (excuse the pun) that seem to be doing OK. The only thing I'm a little worried about is that because they are in the bucket, I can't really monitor their food intake so much. I'll see how these guys pan out, but my priority is the 3 week olds right now. However, I am really interested to see how they do in the bucket as I do hope to move over to a circular system in the near(ish) future.
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