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I say barb or rasbora. I've never had a barb so I can't speak to that, but he has the same face as my harlequin rasboras (I know it's not a harlequin). I doubt it's a rasbora either because the two most common kind you see (scissortail & harlequin) aren't mentioned and they're not hard to identify so I go with barb. Cute little guy though.

I'm not sure liquifry would provide the best nutrition at this point, and it can make water dirty very quickly. Have you tried crushing flake to a fine powder and feeding baby that? It's what I use for my baby mollies.

I feed the liquid fry food in the morning and First Bites when I get home after work... no problems just to switch to the powder. If that's how the wormy things came about, then buh-bye liquids!

Anyone else have advice on whether or not to put him in with my guppy fry in the ten gallon?

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Baby's in the ten gallon... in his net. I moved him before dinner and came back to see him looking longingly at the guppies and danios outside his abode. I let him out and everything seemed okay for a bit, the danios ignored him, but the guppies didn't! Nip, chase, hide!

I coaxed him back into his net for safe keeping. Funny thing is that the mother guppy chased a moment, but it was the guppies that are just a bit bigger than Baby that were chasing him the most. *mutter*

Anyway, I figured that he's still on powdered food anyway, so it's better for him in the net. Hopefully he won't sit there staring at the guppies outside the net and make me feel sorry for him again. I shall be strong, though! I shall!

He's so cute!

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Yes, he is adorable! Just wait until he can start to chase them back. Then the guppies just won't know what to do. Won't that just be a sight to see! Him chasing back! But, I still stand by the assumption that Baby is a rosy barb. And trust me, they are beautiful fish! Just VERY active! But always fun to watch! And never boring!

I can just imagine the guppies when Baby starts getting bigger then them... "Hey, you know we were like, kidding when we chased you, right? 'Cause, like, you could beat us up easily now and... and we wouldn't want any hard feelings, right? Right...? *gulp*"

Hopefully by that time I'll have a nice big tank for Baby... if he's definitely rosy barb, I think I'm out of room.

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Wouldn't that be a trip...watching the guppies swimming away from Baby, and he's like..."Guys, I just wanna be friends...Come back guys, please? I'm all alone...I promise I'll play nice..."

Hehe... and he'll go around thinking he's a guppy or danio, so he won't know why they're running away...

Aww... poor Baby. He's going to need a friend when he's bigger. *nods sagely*

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~

Sorry I haven't updated recently, there's just really not much to say. He's gotten to a point where he's not changing drastically from day to day, so there's not a lot to update you on.

He's about half the size of my youngest guppy fry (lengthwise) but about as tall. (And now I really wish I had saved one of the guppies that was born the day after I got Baby, to compare growth rates...) The black spot by his tail just gets more and more obvious as the days go by, becoming a darker black that really stands out against his nearly translucent body.

You should see how much more active he is now than when he was alone in the five gallon. He's a speedy little thing when he wants to be, and seems fascinated with his tankmates. I'd love to release him from his net, but I fear he'd get chomped on. I don't think the other fish would EAT him, but he'd get picked on, and I don't want that.

My guppies will all rocket to the surface when I open the tank. The surface of the water looks like it's boiling with their movements. Talk about an eager welcome! ...of course, they want the food, not my company, but still...

Baby doesn't seem to be the brightest crayon in the box, though. He still gets a bit spooked when I open the top and hasn't quite figured out that I'm the one bearing food. (Guppies seem to learn this a lot faster...)

Going with the idea that he's a rosy barb, is it normal that he doesn't come to the surface for food? He's much more likely to pick at it when it starts to sink or when it's at the bottom of the net. I'd be more likely to release him from the net if I was sure that he would get food and not be deprived by the appetites that my guppies have. I swear, they're finned pigs...

~Meow. Thus spoke the cat.~