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Hey folks,

I just got a huge shock. I was looking at my empty 29 gallon tank which has had no fish in it for weeks. I've been taking out the substrate to switch it over to sand to start a cory community tank. I've paid pretty much no attention to this tank at all, the lights have been off 4 over a month, but I've had an old aquaclear 200 running on it. I've literally had this tank so cloudy scoopping out substrate that I couldn't see through it to the back. I don;t know how any fish could of lived in there. Anyway, a small movement caught my eye, something really tiny. It seems as if there are three or four incredibly tiny fish in there. Maybe 2 millimeters long. I don't know what kind of fish they are. I used this tank as a QT a few weeks ago for black neons. Additionally I put a large cup of substrate that I had used to seed a tank in there from my electric yellow cichlid tank. But I don't think my cichlids are mature enough. Anyway, whatever they are I guess I'll put the change to sand on hold and hope they live.

What a shock as I've been keeping fish for alomost a year and a half and never had any babies.

Cool. A year and a half isn't long to just now have baby fish, really. I would think it's probably black neon fry. They're egg scatterers... electric yellows deposit their eggs on solid objects and take pretty good care of them. Good luck raising them!

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Ive had some similiar experiences. I would have sworn one of my gobies was dead, but 3 weeks later i find him during a water change, doing fine. Ive had ottos dissapear on me for days, but thats pretty normal .

Congrats that's cool !


The Amazon Nut...

Well, I checked the tank again this morning and there is at least three little fish in there. They're hard to pick out when they're not moving. But they are a little bigger then I first thought. You can make out a tiny eye and the outline of their tail. The body is almost see thru, except around the front half which looks white.

How they survived, I don't know. Just last week I emptied about half the substrate that was in there by scooping it out with a large plastic cup. All the substrate was moved aganist half the tank. Half the tank has no substrate now. There may have been more, but...

I'm keeping my fingers crossed as I never raise fry before.

electric yellows deposit their eggs on solid objects and take pretty good care of them.

Electric Yellow females collect up their eggs into their mouths almost immediately, where they are incubated and hatched.

Well I've never kept them I was going with the basic cichlid breeding... anyway, the concept is the same - the chance these fry are electric yellows is about nil.

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