PrincessBettafish
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I didn't know where else to post this, since I primarily keep betta tanks. So I go to poke my head in my fish room before I go to bed, and I see something dart in my dumbo Opal's tank. She's asleep on the gravel, so it's not her. It's tiny, and it darts into a ceramic pot in her tank. I call my sister in and have her shine her phone light in there, and we find that it's A BABY FISH. No idea where it came from, unless Opal is the Virgin Mary of fish. The tank's been established for six months, no tank mates. We can't even tell what kind of baby fish it is. The only thing I can imagine is an egg hitched a ride on some water sprite I bought two weeks ago from a LFS.
Even stranger is how it lived without food or nutrients, unless it was eating any of Opal's wastes or any plant wastes. Opal is also a bit of a shark, and I feel like she would have eaten anything this tiny! I'm really at a loss. I pulled the little guy out, put him in a temporary holding tank with part of an almond leaf and a plant. Luckily, I had some HikarI First Bites, and fed it too. When it's not 2:30 AM, I'll try to get some better pictures, and hopefully he makes it through the night.
Even stranger is how it lived without food or nutrients, unless it was eating any of Opal's wastes or any plant wastes. Opal is also a bit of a shark, and I feel like she would have eaten anything this tiny! I'm really at a loss. I pulled the little guy out, put him in a temporary holding tank with part of an almond leaf and a plant. Luckily, I had some HikarI First Bites, and fed it too. When it's not 2:30 AM, I'll try to get some better pictures, and hopefully he makes it through the night.
