Holy Cow! It's Rainbow (?) Fry!

[CrazyCatPeekin]

Well, A habrosus fry, anyway, as in one. A while back I moved my habrosus corys to my PFR/Tiger shrimp tank. I mentioned in another thread that, while I thought my shrimp population might drop, I actually saw a boom and have more shrimp babies than ever in that tank.

Well, apparently the shrimp are not the only ones getting busy in that tank. THis morning, I looked in and saw this little guy swimming around.



(Not a great picture, I know. I really have got to learn to use this camera...and maybe get a better one!)

I don't see any others anywhere, just this guy swimming all over the place.

Is he going to be able to eat ground up flake food? I was actually just going to start this tank on Rapashy Shrimp Souffle...I wonder if he'll eat that.

Cute little guy, ain't he?

[mistergreen]

Very cool. I'm still waiting for my pygmeous to produce something. I'll have to get some habrosus.

Crushed flakes and rapashy powder Should work. Microworms & grindal worm would be a great addition.

[fishboy199413]

Nice fry but that is not a cory fry it is probably a rainbowfish fry. I've heard of them being found in new plants but yeah that is not a habrosus fry. But anyway that will look cool when it grows!

[CrazyCatPeekin]

You know...I didn't think it looked like a cory. But the only thing in that tank has been habrosus and shrimp.

It is possible that I moved over some moss from my tank of gertrude's rainbows when I relocated them. It certainly looks more like one of them than a cory cat. I think you are right...I think it's a rainbow. That is even better news! They are in a new tank now, but hopefully if they have spawned once then they will do so again!

The little guy seems to be doing fine in the PFR tank. I think I'll leave him in there for a while until he grows a bit.

[Alplily]

Neat! How cool is that?!

[silva_unt]

http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/sh...d.php?t=136200

Here's my story on my mystery fish fry... checkered rainbows
Hatched in my tank after buying moss at my lfs.
1 year later and I have 2 males and 2 females still. Lost 1 couple months ago when i upgraded to a larger tank. Female jumped out of the bucket when i wasn't looking
Since the upgrade i've added 3 Dwarf Neon rainbowfish and 4 emerald eye rasboras

I fed the fry Hikari First Bites

Keep us updated!

[CrazyCatPeekin]

Wow silva_unt! You got some pretty little hitchhikers there!

I will see about picking up some fry food, but he seemed to be eating little bits of the rapashy..so maybe I won't need it.

I looked and looked, but I don't see any others. There is a LOT of moss in that tank though.

I just hope my bows do it again. The whole reason that I moved them in the first place was so they could have a tank of their own in which to breed. Since they are clearly spawning, I will have to double check the filter in their tank to make sure it is fry safe.

This little guy is ok since he's in a shrimp tank with the filter intakes covered.