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February 16th, 2008
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Fish Bum
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Can you identify this animal?
This animal (see picture) is similar to what I accidentally poured down the sink last week when I changed my water. This week I sucked up some more, but poured the water into another container, rather than down the sink, and I therefore was able to save about 5 of these animals. One is currently alive in my breeder box, and a few are still alive in the bucket.
The problem is that I don't know what the animal is. I assumed it was a guppy fry, but I'm not sure. Again, these ones were living in the gravel (or so it would seem, as they didn't appear until I saw them in the vaccuum tube).
I have guppies, neons, danios, black phantom tetras, a swordtail and a gourami, so it could be one of their fry, or it could have come in from a plant I bought. In any case, there are several of them, and they're about 5mm long and 1mm wide.
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February 16th, 2008
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Moderator
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guppy fry would look like and swim like miniature adult guppys. Looks like an egg layer fry. Keep an eye out and lets see what they are 
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February 16th, 2008
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Fish Keeper
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maybe danio?
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February 16th, 2008
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Fish Helper
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Can you identify this animal?
I know it is a baby fish.
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February 16th, 2008
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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In the 2nd pic, is the unidentified fry sticking to the side of the tank? Could this be an Oto fry that somehow made it into your tank on the plants?
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February 16th, 2008
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Fish Mentor
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 I love a mystery! You are going to try and raise your babies aren't you? Just be sure to use some netting over your syphon tube until they get big enough not to get vacuumed away. |
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February 16th, 2008
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Fish Bum
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I'll try to keep them alive, but my hopes aren't high.
COBettaCouple: Yeah, the one in the breeder box is sticking to the side, as are a few that I haven't removed from the container with the old water. I haven't removed them because I figure they have just as good a chance at surviving in there, at least for a few days, as the one in the breeder box, since they're small enough to escape through the holes in the sides of the breeder box, and indeed one did and got eaten right away by a BP Tetra.
In any case, I saw them last Saturday and this Saturday, several each time, so I'm inclined to think that they came from one of my fish, rather than a plant.
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February 16th, 2008
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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Hmm.. I wonder if they could be from the leopard danios.  Yea, they'll definitely fare best in a small tank of their own. |
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February 16th, 2008
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What ever they are, they sure are cute. |
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February 19th, 2008
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Fish Bum
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I've got 11 or 12 of them in the breeder box now...that I took from that container of old water. The ones that escaped got eaten as far as I can tell, but hopefully the rest will stay in the box until they get big enough!
My only concern was that I was growing insect larvae or something else that lives in water as a baby but then transforms. I don't know how something like that could get into my aquarium though.
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February 19th, 2008
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Fish Bum
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After taking a few pics today, I think these are a little bigger...maybe they've grown a tiny bit since Saturday when I first vaccuumed them into the container. I actually think they may be swordtails now:
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February 19th, 2008
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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Do they all stick to surfaces like that? I've not had swordtails but all the other livebearer fry that we've had were almost always swimming around and even when they dropped I could see very thin fins. |
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February 20th, 2008
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Fish Bum
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Well, this evening there's only one remaining in the box. COBettaCouple, some of them stick to the sides and others appear on the bottom before I can see them move (what I mean is that when I transferred them by pouring them into the box from another container, some showed up on the wall of the box and others on the bottom).
They did swim around though, but when they were in the original container, they would either attach themselves to the side, or lie on the bottom. They would only swim if disturbed.
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February 21st, 2008
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Master Of Fish Poo!
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I hope he makes it. I'd really be interested to find out what he is.
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February 21st, 2008
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Fish Keeper
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the way they stick onto walls of the tank makes me suspect otos as well.
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February 21st, 2008
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Fish Keeper
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Post any new findings as they grow.
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February 23rd, 2008
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Fish Bum
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Last Saturday's batch are all missing; I assume they escaped and were eaten.
Today's batch are in the wine bucket I vaccuumed them into and I'm going to leave them in there this time, rather than putting them into the breeder box. However, I rinsed the new Activated Carbon Insert in that water (since it was aquarium water), and now there's a noticeable gray-ness to the water. However, it didn't kill the baby fish; time will tell if the carbon dust will slowly kill them or not. Anyway, this time I'll let them grow in that bucket, rather than the predator-rich aquarium.
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February 24th, 2008
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Fish Bum
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I had the bucket out in the sun today (the water temp. is only around 67°F), and noticed that the fish have a green color to them. Also, most of them are NOT sticking to the side of the bucket this time. Most are floating near the surface, swimming occasionally in short bursts of probably 0.5 to 1 centimeter per burst.
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