lottabubbles
Fish Fanatic
On February 3 2025 during a cleaning of my Rena-3 canister aquarium filter. Upon removing it for the cleaning operation I observed a movement inside the canister and sure enough there was a baby Bronze Cory catfish. Now it became a rescue mission.
Got the 2 gallon quarantine tank set up with the aquarium water and put the little fish in it’s better environment.
The little fish was about 3/4inch long but had all the markings of the Bronze Cory parents and had to be in the form of an egg to pass through the screen section on the intake tube of the filter system, so it had to be in that canister for quite some time.
My wife named the little fish Little Buddy and he/she progressed rapidly and 12 days ago he had gotten to 1 1/4 inch long so we put Little Buddy in the 125 gallon tank. It adapted to the larger area and was doing great and gaining girth and length.
Today was the regular scheduled aquarium cleaning and my wife asked me if I seen Little Buddy before I started and I said no. we have been observing it every day so far. I have a lot of hiding spaces in that large tank and after several hours of searching we saw that the screen part of the intake filter tube had been knocked off (probably by my big pleco) I immediately removed the canister and took the top section off and there was the mangled body of Little Buddy. Not a happy day for us.
It’s so ironic that a something can be captured in two stages of it’s short life by the same tube.
Got the 2 gallon quarantine tank set up with the aquarium water and put the little fish in it’s better environment.
The little fish was about 3/4inch long but had all the markings of the Bronze Cory parents and had to be in the form of an egg to pass through the screen section on the intake tube of the filter system, so it had to be in that canister for quite some time.
My wife named the little fish Little Buddy and he/she progressed rapidly and 12 days ago he had gotten to 1 1/4 inch long so we put Little Buddy in the 125 gallon tank. It adapted to the larger area and was doing great and gaining girth and length.
Today was the regular scheduled aquarium cleaning and my wife asked me if I seen Little Buddy before I started and I said no. we have been observing it every day so far. I have a lot of hiding spaces in that large tank and after several hours of searching we saw that the screen part of the intake filter tube had been knocked off (probably by my big pleco) I immediately removed the canister and took the top section off and there was the mangled body of Little Buddy. Not a happy day for us.
It’s so ironic that a something can be captured in two stages of it’s short life by the same tube.
