Angry_Platy
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I just remembered this while reading through other posts...
A few weeks ago I transferred my now 3 month old platy fry (5 of them) into their own new 6gallon cycled all-in-one tank. Transfer was by spoon from their breeders net, into a cup with tank water in then the cup tipped into the new tank (tankwater in new tank was warmer but otherwise identical to their previous home)....HENCE...the fry enever actually leave the water....(they are too little for this)...
ANYWAY....I had poured the babies into their tank....and counted....1...2...3...4....where was number 5?? 1...2...3...4....still no number 5.....I *assumed* it must be hiding from the stress of a new tank...then the phone rang....20 minutes later....back to the tank....counted again....1....2...3...4... still no number 5.....
SOO....I decided to investigate in and around the ornaments in the tank (and the filter which I had secured but with baby fish you never can tell).....nope......no fish.....checked on my desk (where their tank sits)....no fish....count again.....1...2...3...4......check under the lid....
OMG!!!! There it was...one little baby fish....gills not moving....me thinking it was dead....panicking, heart racing, you know the feeling......so I tentatively put it into the 6gall tank to confirm it is dead....it starts sinking....I proceed to catch it.....it swims off!! It had been out of water for 25 minutes!!!! It wasn't even lying in a pool of water.....just lying on the inside rim of the tank....waiting to be rescued.....
That was 4 weeks ago and all fish are perfectly happy and healthy....that said, I don't know which one it is that I rescued but I know that somewhere in there, there is a little survivor....my little Rocky!!!
A few weeks ago I transferred my now 3 month old platy fry (5 of them) into their own new 6gallon cycled all-in-one tank. Transfer was by spoon from their breeders net, into a cup with tank water in then the cup tipped into the new tank (tankwater in new tank was warmer but otherwise identical to their previous home)....HENCE...the fry enever actually leave the water....(they are too little for this)...
ANYWAY....I had poured the babies into their tank....and counted....1...2...3...4....where was number 5?? 1...2...3...4....still no number 5.....I *assumed* it must be hiding from the stress of a new tank...then the phone rang....20 minutes later....back to the tank....counted again....1....2...3...4... still no number 5.....
SOO....I decided to investigate in and around the ornaments in the tank (and the filter which I had secured but with baby fish you never can tell).....nope......no fish.....checked on my desk (where their tank sits)....no fish....count again.....1...2...3...4......check under the lid....
OMG!!!! There it was...one little baby fish....gills not moving....me thinking it was dead....panicking, heart racing, you know the feeling......so I tentatively put it into the 6gall tank to confirm it is dead....it starts sinking....I proceed to catch it.....it swims off!! It had been out of water for 25 minutes!!!! It wasn't even lying in a pool of water.....just lying on the inside rim of the tank....waiting to be rescued.....
That was 4 weeks ago and all fish are perfectly happy and healthy....that said, I don't know which one it is that I rescued but I know that somewhere in there, there is a little survivor....my little Rocky!!!
nice name chook!
Good to hear that all of the fry (esp. Rocky) are doing well in their new home. 
