Tory
Fish Crazy
Yesterday was interesting, it started with my weekly water change. My brother was also disbanding his tank due to a house move, and I was expecting 3 fish from him later on in the day. At 8pm, I floated the fish and went to the shops. On my return, I cut the fish loose and watched them swimming about for a while to make sure they were ok. It occured to me that I had not seen my male Golden Ancictrus for a while and I started to panic. I lifted all the rocks and hideaways to see if I could see him and he appeared to have disapeared into thin air. All of a sudden, I saw a little tail flipping around in the gravel and my immediate thought was... w t f ?? That cant be fry, ive not had live bearers for ages....and it turned out to be exactly that! I straight away netted it and put it into a fry net, and found another and did the same thing to ensure they wouldnt become food! I started to get a bit confused because that appeared to be it....or so I thought. When I had a close look at the 2 fry, I realised they were perfect miniture Albino Bristlenoses!! Now I knew that bristlenoses incubated their eggs in caves, but there was nothing - I was also gutted that i hadnt witnessed the courtship. I had another look for my male, and found him inside the hollow lining of an ornamental cave! As I turned it upside down, out swam what seemed like hundreds of bristlenose fry!!!! I sat patiently for hours fishing them out so they wouldnt be eaten, and put them in a smaller empty tank. After watching them a while, I was worried I had done the wrong thing with them all having being hidden in the cave liner so I did some searches and found that luckily when I had found them, they appeared to be at the right stage to be removedam so excited, I cant wait to be able to get some decent pictures, Im so proud to be a fist time bristlenose mum!!! 
