AmberLouiseT
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Please, I'm so worried about my little larvae, she/he's not been doing too great at all.. She/he's 6 days old now and has developed this thing.. it looks like a blood blister or a red dot. At first, I stupidly thought it was just me being able to see her belly being full as I'd read that sometimes they get little orange bellies, and it was so faint in colour that I just put it down to a nice full tummy. But over the past 24 hours it's become more pronounced and red. It's definitely not a full tummy, it's not even in the right place for it to be the stomach!
I'm so stupid, please could you help me to figure out how to save this baby? This little one has lagged behind it's sibling since birth - what have I done wrong?
I do 100% water changes every day with fresh dechlorinated water, that's at the same temperature as the water they've been in. I make sure there's always plenty of daphnia in the tub (there's not many in this tub as I took them out to get better pictures) and that they are kept at a cool, stable temperature 16-17c.
She's swimming real strange too.. swimming up, thrashing about, then floating back down. I mentioned in a separate post about how it seems the daphnia are attacking this baby, as if they're trying to eat it, instead of being eaten themselves.
Can someone please tell me what to do? Tell me what I'm doing wrong to make this happen? The other baby is fine, getting bigger, developing more colouring and seems to be content.
How can I go so wrong with one baby and so right with another? I don't understand what is happening or WHY it's happening.
Please just help me to save this baby, I'm so attached already it's ridiculous.
I'm so stupid, please could you help me to figure out how to save this baby? This little one has lagged behind it's sibling since birth - what have I done wrong?
I do 100% water changes every day with fresh dechlorinated water, that's at the same temperature as the water they've been in. I make sure there's always plenty of daphnia in the tub (there's not many in this tub as I took them out to get better pictures) and that they are kept at a cool, stable temperature 16-17c.
She's swimming real strange too.. swimming up, thrashing about, then floating back down. I mentioned in a separate post about how it seems the daphnia are attacking this baby, as if they're trying to eat it, instead of being eaten themselves.
Can someone please tell me what to do? Tell me what I'm doing wrong to make this happen? The other baby is fine, getting bigger, developing more colouring and seems to be content.
How can I go so wrong with one baby and so right with another? I don't understand what is happening or WHY it's happening.
Please just help me to save this baby, I'm so attached already it's ridiculous.