Oblivious_666 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Hello all! I have been cycling my fishless 10 gallon for about a month now, and it's been teeming with microfauna! I recently saw some movement in the water column and realized I had a couple fish fry! I haven't had any fish outside of a few nerite snails, and suddenly these fish appear! I'll be growing these out no matter what out of my sheer curiosity, because this has never happened in my time fishkeeping. Here's a photo of it if anyone can give me an idea as to what it might be: Really looking forward to seeing these babies grow up! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmedByFish Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 I love this kind of post! I don't recognize what kind of fry it is, but I wanted to stop and say that is the coolest thing ever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flumpweesel Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 life finds a way, how very exciting. I can't help either but keeping my fingers crossed for you that they make it and the mystery gets solved 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Congratulations on surprise fry. Can’t wait to see what you have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Ricefish fry is what it closest resembles from my experience. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griznatch Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Surprise fry are always cool! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedroPete Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Did you add live plants from another tank? For example, ricefish could attach their eggs to moss in another tank, and then you move the moss to your tank, and - voila - mystery fry 🙂 Very cool! Keep us updated. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 Rice fish and zebra danio are egg are commonly bought in on plants I would say it looks like a rice fish fry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmedByFish Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Rice fish are 1 of the only 2 species on my "want it" list. I'm so jealous! 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivious_666 Posted December 10, 2021 Author Share Posted December 10, 2021 On 12/9/2021 at 2:17 PM, PedroPete said: Did you add live plants from another tank? For example, ricefish could attach their eggs to moss in another tank, and then you move the moss to your tank, and - voila - mystery fry 🙂 Very cool! Keep us updated. I have! The only fish that I suspect could produce the fry in my tanks would be harlequin rasboras, panda garras, or guppies/platies. This doesn't look like guppy fry to me and I believe the Rasboras are egg scatterers and the panda garras are extremely hard to breed in captivity. On 12/9/2021 at 3:21 PM, Colu said: Rice fish and zebra danio are egg are commonly bought in on plants I would say it looks like a rice fish fry I would love to grow out some rice fish! There is an extremely, extremely minute chance it could be giant danio fry but I have them in with four predatory fish and it was a small clipping of Anubias nana petite. 😛 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mountaintoppufferkeeper Posted December 10, 2021 Share Posted December 10, 2021 Also looks very close to a rice fish to me with that body shape; I have not bred garra but suspect they are more likely to be down on the bottom of the tank than up in the water column like that. I have also not done giant danio before. Should be a fun to grow out. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Sometimes a video could help identify fry by the way they move. At least as far as putting them into a group/type even if not down to species yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivious_666 Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 On 12/10/2021 at 4:02 PM, Odd Duck said: Sometimes a video could help identify fry by the way they move. At least as far as putting them into a group/type even if not down to species yet. Is there any way to embed a video? I have one, I just can't get Imgur to work on my computer unfortunately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 On 12/10/2021 at 11:07 PM, Oblivious_666 said: Is there any way to embed a video? I have one, I just can't get Imgur to work on my computer unfortunately I do mine on YouTube and post the link it’s super easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minanora Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 This is so cool! I hope they make it! I look forward to photos, too! Also, what plants did you move into that tank? I would guess that they're harlequin rasbora fry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Burke Posted December 13, 2021 Share Posted December 13, 2021 Nature wins! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oblivious_666 Posted December 22, 2021 Author Share Posted December 22, 2021 Another low-quality photo update! They've grown so much in the past two weeks already:I'm thinking that these could be Harlequin Rasboras, but I think it'd be cool if they were a different fish species! They're still feasting on the infusoria, sadly got exposed to covid so I'm stuck at home for the next few days, probably gonna try my hand at baby brine shrimp once I have free time, not taking F/T tubifex worms or flake food unfortunately. Will continue to post updates! 😊 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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