TwoTankAmin
Fish Maniac
I have been putting off a project in my 125 gal. tank. It contains a bunch of big plants, mostly anubias, but also a couple of good sized Java ferns and a big Bolbitis heudelotii (African fern). There are only two species of fish in the tank- clown loaches,including two very large ones and, 6 very large redline barbs (Sahyadria denisonii).
The plants are covered with algae and debris and I needed to pull them for a bleach dip and cleaning. So I nabbed the big java fern out of a pile of decent sized rock and a big anubias attached to a chunk of woos mostly inside the rock pile. Behind the rock pile with the anubias is a giant cave with a big piece of slat atop it and part of the rock pile. The cave has no back so it is set against the side glass to form a back side to the cave. The fern is attached to a river rock and it sits atop the slate over the cave.
I remove the fern and its rock, got the wood and big anubias attached to it out of the rock pile and then removed one more big anubias attached to in a vertical piece of wood. These all went out into the other building into the fish space where they got bleached, rinsed, soaked in a bucket with a lot of dechlor and then put into a 20 gal can of clean water. Once all 3 plants were done I brought them back into the house to put back into the tank and that is when I saw something I never expected ever to see in my tanks. I saw what looked like a fry, maybe 3/4 of an inch. Then I spotted a few more. The were hiding in the rock/slate/cave area. Where they could hide easily and nothing else could fit.
After I did my double take and looked closely, I saw several of the fry swimming near the slate which they would then duck down behind and then come back out from again. I know they should not be clown fry, but they have me convinced by how they look that this is what they appear to be. They have very little color but they all have 3 black vertical stripes each side of their body. One strip is near the head, one is in the middle and the third is near the tail end. They all look the same.
At the very worst here I am wrong bout what they are and they are redline babies. But these are pretty rare also, but clown babies would be close to a miracle. I have returns the wood with the anubias and the fern. I saw five of the fry out while doing so. The is no chance I cou.ld catch them and pull them yo a grow tank. All I can do is cross my fingers and hope some of them manage to get bigger so I can get a posative ID. The tank has never had any other fish/water in it for over a years and was empty when a leak in the 150 where the fish had lived for years sprung a leak. So the fish and tank contents move from the 150 to the 125.
As I am typing this i am still in a fog. Clowns loach do not breed in tanks without hormone s being used. These must be fry from another tank accidentllly moved over. But I have never seen any fry like this in any of my other tanks. I must be dreaming.
The plants are covered with algae and debris and I needed to pull them for a bleach dip and cleaning. So I nabbed the big java fern out of a pile of decent sized rock and a big anubias attached to a chunk of woos mostly inside the rock pile. Behind the rock pile with the anubias is a giant cave with a big piece of slat atop it and part of the rock pile. The cave has no back so it is set against the side glass to form a back side to the cave. The fern is attached to a river rock and it sits atop the slate over the cave.
I remove the fern and its rock, got the wood and big anubias attached to it out of the rock pile and then removed one more big anubias attached to in a vertical piece of wood. These all went out into the other building into the fish space where they got bleached, rinsed, soaked in a bucket with a lot of dechlor and then put into a 20 gal can of clean water. Once all 3 plants were done I brought them back into the house to put back into the tank and that is when I saw something I never expected ever to see in my tanks. I saw what looked like a fry, maybe 3/4 of an inch. Then I spotted a few more. The were hiding in the rock/slate/cave area. Where they could hide easily and nothing else could fit.
After I did my double take and looked closely, I saw several of the fry swimming near the slate which they would then duck down behind and then come back out from again. I know they should not be clown fry, but they have me convinced by how they look that this is what they appear to be. They have very little color but they all have 3 black vertical stripes each side of their body. One strip is near the head, one is in the middle and the third is near the tail end. They all look the same.
At the very worst here I am wrong bout what they are and they are redline babies. But these are pretty rare also, but clown babies would be close to a miracle. I have returns the wood with the anubias and the fern. I saw five of the fry out while doing so. The is no chance I cou.ld catch them and pull them yo a grow tank. All I can do is cross my fingers and hope some of them manage to get bigger so I can get a posative ID. The tank has never had any other fish/water in it for over a years and was empty when a leak in the 150 where the fish had lived for years sprung a leak. So the fish and tank contents move from the 150 to the 125.
As I am typing this i am still in a fog. Clowns loach do not breed in tanks without hormone s being used. These must be fry from another tank accidentllly moved over. But I have never seen any fry like this in any of my other tanks. I must be dreaming.
