Well, my holding female acei spit her fry - one of which swam into the pebble pile and was rescued, one more we spotted hiding near the rocks, but couldn't catch. No telling if there will be any survivors (likely not) in the main tank, unless some fry have gotten sucked into the canister filter. (Quite possible.) I've moved the baby to the 20 long, still inside the net box due to much larger sibling (Filter Baby) already living there. Normally I wouldn't try saving these fry, but I want to rehome my beta acei male (the alpha really chases him around a lot) and hope that the kids will be female so my m/f ratio will get better. 4/1 is pretty much the exact opposite of what you want!
I tried making a fish trap out of a 2L soda bottle but it caught the wrong fish, and the next fish it caught figured out how to bust out, so I need to tape it together a bit more firmly before trying again. I also bought dorky yellow pond gloves to wear during tank maintenance - my skin's been suffering from the constant immersion so this should help a lot.
One thing about aquariums is unless things are going wrong nothing much tends to happen when they're stable... I have some more fish in quarantine for the planted tank but it will be a while before they get moved over.
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