Hey all, I don't own any tropical fish tanks, so I don't know very much about them unfortunately. I do have a betta fish though.
Yesterday I went to my local fish store and asked them for four snails to put in my bettas tank (he lives in a 5 gallon and sometimes he looks lonely, even though I know he appreciates the solitude). The woman told me they didn't have any in the sale tank so she got them from the back. So I took the snails home with me and started to drop them in when I noticed this tiny fry swimming around on the bottom of the bag. I called the fish store I bought him from but they said they were unable to identify the fry because he had come in with the deliver and weren't aware of who the potential parents were, and couldn't take him back because I didn't /buy/ him, and then told me to just feed him to the betta fish, which I would rather not do.
I cleaned out a fish bowl and took some water from my fathers 50 gallon aquarium, floated him on top of it for 20 minutes and then put him in. He's maybe half an inch big at this point and his only notable feature is that he's long with a half-circle tail.
I know there are lots of websites around about caring for fish fry, but unfortunately there aren't any for caring for just /one/ fry.
I guess my question is that if I don't know what kind of fish he is, and I only have the one fish (aside from my betta) how should I take care of him so I can avoid feeding him the wrong food, or at the wrong temperature?
Yesterday I went to my local fish store and asked them for four snails to put in my bettas tank (he lives in a 5 gallon and sometimes he looks lonely, even though I know he appreciates the solitude). The woman told me they didn't have any in the sale tank so she got them from the back. So I took the snails home with me and started to drop them in when I noticed this tiny fry swimming around on the bottom of the bag. I called the fish store I bought him from but they said they were unable to identify the fry because he had come in with the deliver and weren't aware of who the potential parents were, and couldn't take him back because I didn't /buy/ him, and then told me to just feed him to the betta fish, which I would rather not do.
I cleaned out a fish bowl and took some water from my fathers 50 gallon aquarium, floated him on top of it for 20 minutes and then put him in. He's maybe half an inch big at this point and his only notable feature is that he's long with a half-circle tail.
I know there are lots of websites around about caring for fish fry, but unfortunately there aren't any for caring for just /one/ fry.
I guess my question is that if I don't know what kind of fish he is, and I only have the one fish (aside from my betta) how should I take care of him so I can avoid feeding him the wrong food, or at the wrong temperature?
