Today I was feeding my bichir (who is growing out in the 45g sump of my 160g tank), and I noticed a baby fish swimming around! I ran and grabbed a net and fished him out and moved him to a tank where he won't get eaten. I put him a in a large net with some java moss and fern and Salvinia. Its amazing he exists at all because right now that tank has ich (courtesy of accidental cross contamination with a hospital tank), and also recently that tank got down to the low 50s due to a circuit getting blown while I was on vacation. Besides that he also had to have made a 5ft fall from the overflow of the tank down to the sump.
The thing is, I don't know what kind of fish he is. The only possible pairs I have are Krobia Xing and several species of Botine loaches (clown, striata, historonica) or possibly a hybrid of some CA cichlids in that tank (but haven't seen any pairing behavior). The Krobia seem like the most obvious possibilities because I had a pair showing some spawning behavior prior to the circuit incident, but I lost one of them then. The remaining fish from the pair now seems to be pairing up with one of the other two Krobia in the tank, but the baby seems a bit too big to be from a new pairing. Also It seems to be striped and more elongated and "loachy" looking to me, which makes me wonder if he isn't a baby loach of some kind!
I hope he lives because this hobby has been a bit rough on me lately! Besides losing a bunch fo rare fish in the the circuit incident, I also recently used all my Christmas money to order a big group of captive bred Elephantnose fish and had them all die within in a couple days because they were way too small to be shipped.
If he lives it would make me feel a bit better!
The thing is, I don't know what kind of fish he is. The only possible pairs I have are Krobia Xing and several species of Botine loaches (clown, striata, historonica) or possibly a hybrid of some CA cichlids in that tank (but haven't seen any pairing behavior). The Krobia seem like the most obvious possibilities because I had a pair showing some spawning behavior prior to the circuit incident, but I lost one of them then. The remaining fish from the pair now seems to be pairing up with one of the other two Krobia in the tank, but the baby seems a bit too big to be from a new pairing. Also It seems to be striped and more elongated and "loachy" looking to me, which makes me wonder if he isn't a baby loach of some kind!
I hope he lives because this hobby has been a bit rough on me lately! Besides losing a bunch fo rare fish in the the circuit incident, I also recently used all my Christmas money to order a big group of captive bred Elephantnose fish and had them all die within in a couple days because they were way too small to be shipped.
If he lives it would make me feel a bit better!
