my tank is 33 US gallons
I've got three live plants, but I don't know their names. One of them is 5 years old and the other two are recent additons.
Fish:
2x neons (both named Frank)
2x african dwarf frogs (Cleo and Ivan)
1x khuli loach (Khuli)
1x pleco (he's recent and hasn't been named yet)
2x eels, type unknown, but the largest is only 8 inches long and I've had her 7ish years (Clovis and Bebe)
So, when I moved my fish into a larger tank the eels began to do what I believe was fornicate. Then I didn't see them much for a while and one day I found what I think was a baby eel. It was about 3 mm long and it was striped. It likely became food.
I recently added 2 new plants, as well as a pleco to clean up an alge problem. I also added a patch of sand in one corner. They started going at it again today and I was watching, (it's really cool to see them flailing about all over the tank like that) and I noticed that Clovis( who is an inch longer, a bit fatter, and behaving submisivly, while Bebe took a more agressive role) had what sort of looked like a penis
I don't think it really was a penis, but that's what it looked like. I kept watching and a tiny little egg came out of it, floated up into the current then landed in the gravel right up against the glass!! I got it out using my aqua leash and put it into a well rised baby food jar with about 1/2 dozen gravel and aquarium water.
I've got the jar with the lid on sunk in my tank so that the temp will keep, but I don't know what to do now. I was thinking that I would get one of those little seperator room thingys that attach inside the main tank, and lining it with a hankercheif so that it couldn't get through the slots. Or my sister has an old betta tank that I could set up. What do you guys think?
If it does hatch what can I feed it? Will it nibble away at a blood worm? Baby brine shrimp? tiny misquito larva? Do they start out with a yolk sac?
I looked around on the net after I saw the little stripped baby (about a month ago) and it said that zig zag and tire track eels (what they were sold to me as, but they are so small that I doubt it) don't reproduce in captivity and so there was no info on the subject. Please help.
Moeberry
I've got three live plants, but I don't know their names. One of them is 5 years old and the other two are recent additons.
Fish:
2x neons (both named Frank)
2x african dwarf frogs (Cleo and Ivan)
1x khuli loach (Khuli)
1x pleco (he's recent and hasn't been named yet)
2x eels, type unknown, but the largest is only 8 inches long and I've had her 7ish years (Clovis and Bebe)
So, when I moved my fish into a larger tank the eels began to do what I believe was fornicate. Then I didn't see them much for a while and one day I found what I think was a baby eel. It was about 3 mm long and it was striped. It likely became food.
I recently added 2 new plants, as well as a pleco to clean up an alge problem. I also added a patch of sand in one corner. They started going at it again today and I was watching, (it's really cool to see them flailing about all over the tank like that) and I noticed that Clovis( who is an inch longer, a bit fatter, and behaving submisivly, while Bebe took a more agressive role) had what sort of looked like a penis
I don't think it really was a penis, but that's what it looked like. I kept watching and a tiny little egg came out of it, floated up into the current then landed in the gravel right up against the glass!! I got it out using my aqua leash and put it into a well rised baby food jar with about 1/2 dozen gravel and aquarium water. I've got the jar with the lid on sunk in my tank so that the temp will keep, but I don't know what to do now. I was thinking that I would get one of those little seperator room thingys that attach inside the main tank, and lining it with a hankercheif so that it couldn't get through the slots. Or my sister has an old betta tank that I could set up. What do you guys think?
If it does hatch what can I feed it? Will it nibble away at a blood worm? Baby brine shrimp? tiny misquito larva? Do they start out with a yolk sac?
I looked around on the net after I saw the little stripped baby (about a month ago) and it said that zig zag and tire track eels (what they were sold to me as, but they are so small that I doubt it) don't reproduce in captivity and so there was no info on the subject. Please help.
Moeberry
