first baby fish

[phillippa42]

Fed my fish yesterday and thought hmmm tha's a big bit of poo or something floating along, and it just changed direction

On closer inspection its a baby fish Its only about 7mm, 8mm long and brown.

So questions - why can I just see one - is it likely that the rest have been eaten by other fish? Does this one have a fairly good chance of not been eating now its 7mm long. I have yoyo loaches in the tank and think that they would be the most likely to eat it

Seems to be doing a good job of hiding in the plants most of the time.

What sort of fish is it likely to be? I have mollys in the tank so that would be my 1st guess, also have danios, corys, bn catfish, one platy (but quite new, so could have been pregnant on arrival ?). So are baby mollies born brown? When will it start getting more colourful?

How old is it likely to be now? How soon will it get bigger?

I'm very excited and becoming a mum!!

 

[qwikimpss]

I'd say it's probably a molly but if yuor platy was pregnant....which she probably was if it is a female....then it could be a platy too. I would definately provide it with some form of shelter if you want to keep it. I've found Hikari First Bites work well for livebearer fry.

 

[IMCL85]

before I have a molly/platie tank like few year ago. Man its a mess once u get a pair of either. Fish fry every where in a monthes or so. At the end I wand up give them all away to friends and now I never keep them again. But in ur condition they probably going to be eaten by ur yoyo any ways. If you can remove them from main tank to some small tank 5g r fine. Good luck.

 

[phillippa42]

I've just been reading on some other posts about nets for baby fish - do you put these nets in your main tank then, 'cos I only have one tank?

I won't be able to get one till Tuesday now with it being the Bank Holiday - hope he lasts till then

thanks for your replies

 

[qwikimpss]

yeah, they just drop right in your tank and segregates the lil'uns from the big'uns.

 

[qwikimpss]

Where else on the Net can an American and Canadian give fish advice to someone in the UK....this place rocks....sorry, epiphany moment