iloveengl

Here's the thing: when I was trying to catch danios today in the 12g, I came across a mystery baby!

This 12g was used as the quarantine/staging tank for almost 4 months & has recently contained the following female fish:

Danios
dwarf honey gourami (only been there a few days)
betta (this just can't be the mom - they make bubble nests...)
Otocinclus (boy or girl, I have no clue)
ADF (also no clue if boy or girl, but the fry looks too slim to be a tadpole)

It's the same size as the 3-day old molly fry, but it's much slimmer and solid black.

I was really excited (and prepared) for the baby mollies from the 55g; I already had a baby divider in the betta tank. I'm flabbergasted by this little mystery fry. I named it "midnight." Any guesses?

TFA101

otocinclus or a danio would be my guess. i'm leaning towards otocinclus basedon your description

Butterfly

All of those described are egg layers and would need two to have a baby.
What else has been in the tank?
Carol

bolivianbaby

Could you have possibly transferred it from another tank? If not, I'm clueless (again).

iloveengl

It won't sit still long enough for me to see if it has an Oto face, but that would be so cool.

That was my first thought, too! But I can't figure out how. It's quite a walk to the brackish tank (where the mollies are) & I can think of neither fish nor decor that has been moved between those two tanks. I wonder what I'm forgetting.

Those are the only ones that I can think that have been in there. I know my danio was super fat and very aggressive and possessive about her little castle & then 2 weeks later she was skinny and couldn't care less. *But* the baby doesn't look anything like danio babies I googled. I'm clueless.

I'm not sure how fast babies grow, but maybe in a month or so I'll see more definition & I can update.