I have babies but who are the parents?

valerie

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Ok this is weird.I moved my taiwan reef to a Qtank about 1 week ago because i noticed that he/she(doesn't have any coloring but it is only 2") wasn't eating. I had this happen to one of my Lab.pearlmutts that turned out to be parasites so i thought i would medicate.

I have added internal parasite meds to the tank for the past 4 days.Today i looked and she was eating,i thought that was wierd and decided to keep watchign her. I noticed a couple babies floating around.Now i'm really happy but i don't know where the babies came from. I don't have another taiwan reef in that. I have 3 pearlmutts,1 red empress,2 peacocks(1 male 1famale) and 1 hap electra. Hwere did the babies comes from?

i have a theory,i noticed that one of my female pearlmutts wasn't eating a while back and saw what looked like soemthign in her mouth. THe next day i checked and she was better.I jsut thought she swallowed the eggs. AMybe she spit and the taiwan reef picked the up?does this happen?

Now for the important part,how do i feed the babies? they don't stick together much and are scattered all over the tank.There is still meds in teh tank so i'm going to have to fix that.
 
does anyone know how to take care of the babies? I tried feeding them crushed flakes but i don't think they ate any.They don't seem to go after it, or even notice it. It falls to the bottom(bare bottom), will they eat it off the bottm if i leave it there?

I have seen about 7-8 fry,But there might be more. They taiwan reef is still in the tank.Is that ok?
 
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