Guppies gave birth

[EddieW]

Noticed about half a dozen guppy fry hiding amongst the floating plants yesterday. Was really pleased as these are my first!

I have decided to let nature take it's course as I won't have room for loads of guppies so it's survival of the fittiest

There were at least three still around this morning - two in the plants and one in the shallow water above the internal filter body - crafty little one has worked out that the other fish find it difficult to fit in that space

There may still be others as I have quite a good mass of floating plants in the tank at the moment as I was just about to replant the plantlets from my sword and the plecs have managed to up root the Egeria Densa again. There is also some java moss on a bit of mopani wood for them to hide in. I will post a couple of photos of the tank shortly.

I doubt whether any of them will survive longer term as I added some Algea Eating Shrimp on Saturday (all at least 15mm long) and they had all seemed to disappear within a couple of hours. Not sure what could have eaten them as the seemed too large for the mouths of anything in the tank I am quite disappointed about that as they were a really nice addition to my clean up crew.

Cheers, Eddie

 

[wetwetwet]

Hey Eddie,

the shrimp are masters at hiding, mine seem to prefer the darker areas of the tank and under/behind bogwood. I wouldnt be surprised if they're all there somewhere

 

[EddieW]

Thanks for the info WWW.

I would be upset if they all disappeared as they were not particularly cheap (not expensive either, but I would hate to think I have spent that much on 'food' ).

I will have to have another look around - there are a lot of places for them to hide so it may be difficult. There is a hollow running right through a resin ornament. This might be getting crowded as one pleco took up residence in there straight away and now one of the loaches is sharing the end of it at times. If the shrimp are in there it is going to be getting really cosy

Cheers, Eddie