ok i guess i'll tell you

jimcalpin · 09-09-2008, 09:55 AM

a couple of weeks ago i woke up one morning to find some baby fish in my tank,

but by the time i got home from work they were nowhere to be found

then the next morning i saw one of them,

but then it disapeared again. so that brings us to today, i see another one!

i imagine this is one that survived from the first ones i saw and he's hiding in the gravel in the back of the tank
now i just have to figure out who had babies...

RJRofFL · 09-09-2008, 10:40 AM

Congratulations, Jim.

Now you will learn what it's like to be a "Grandpa"!!!!!!!

Bob

Judge · 09-09-2008, 10:53 AM

Good for you JC..you are now an official "fishgrandparent"...if you could get some pics somehow we could all ooo and ahhh over them!

LiVe4fIsH · 09-09-2008, 12:49 PM

Hey Jim, congrats on the new addition(s)! Surely you feed your fish at least once a day, did you notice any of your fish not eating? I wanted to get an idea of the process of releasing fry in a community tank. If the maternal parent of the fry acts differently or not. Again, congrats on the fry. Just shows you that your tank/fish are very healthy to be able to do this!

jimcalpin · 09-13-2008, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Judge

if you could get some pics somehow we could all ooo and ahhh over them!

yeah, i've tried to get them on camera, but it just never focuses just right, and they're so tiny

Quote:

Originally Posted by LiVe4fIsH

Hey Jim, congrats on the new addition(s)! Surely you feed your fish at least once a day, did you notice any of your fish not eating? I wanted to get an idea of the process of releasing fry in a community tank. If the maternal parent of the fry acts differently or not. Again, congrats on the fry. Just shows you that your tank/fish are very healthy to be able to do this!

i think i figured out which one had the fry, and it's one i thought was male so i realize that i have alot to figure out. but i havn't noticed anything different with the fish, and its not that i planned to release them into the tank they made there own way in

cichlidgirl · 09-13-2008, 01:39 AM

If you put little rock piles around and some thick fake plants the fry have a better chance of surviving since the larger fish wont be able to get into a rockpile made out of small stones, rocks about the size of dimes to quarters etc.. spread several of them throughout the tank and they can dart for cover where ever they happen to be in the tank.

Congrats on the fry.

jimcalpin · 11-09-2008, 11:37 PM

wow, i offically suck at giving yall updates, sorry about that... to catch up
1. September: the fry dissapeared again
2. middle of october: back again, much he's much bigger and has color now eating and swimming out in the open almost all of the time
3. Today: I finally remembered to take a picture

i also got some new fish the other day and i promise pics soon (you might have to hold me to that)

on a side note: my little brothers tank has been an interesting story... he started with 2 platies and within a month he had about 9 fry in his tank, 5 survived. and his female got huge, doubled in size (the rest of this post is baised on what my liitle brother has told me and not on my observation) and she had more the other day and he told me she died giving birth, so now he has 1 grown platy, 5 about the size of mine, and 7 tiny fry. i'd say he had a good $4 investment

cichlidgirl · 11-10-2008, 02:23 PM

Interesting update, thanks. Too bad about the female your brother had. I have not kept these fish so i could be wrong but Sounds like she might have gotten bloat or a intestinal blockage or even egg blocked (a large egg blocks the tube , not sure if this type of fish is a egg layer or not) these will all cause a swelling of the area and death.

orb4me · 11-10-2008, 03:38 PM

Is that the baby or the mom? If she has eggs, maybe shes just not ready to have them. I had forgotten that egg layers have eggs with or without a male being present. I see you have a camera now, so we want more pics. Dont forget to add your mug pic to the group.

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When I see a fish with the string of poo, I toss in some algue flakes or pop peas into the tank, assuming they need a veggie.

Maybe you can put her in a smaller tank? just some thinking, thats not good when I do that.

cichlidgirl · 11-10-2008, 04:04 PM

The brother reported the mom died giving birth, she swelled up real big and then died.