Fry??

[wbaker01]

While vacuuming our gravel in the tank tonight, we noticed several "things" fighting against the current of our python vacuum tube, upon closing the valve on the drain hose, these appeared to be small fry of some sort and immediately swam out of the tube and buried themselves back into our gravel. Now, we have never bred our fish and our tank houses; cory catfish of large and small variety, chinese algae eaters, clown loaches, bleeding heart and head-and-tail light tetras and hatchetfish. Do any of these fish produce fry that would bury themselves in gravel while still very small?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[westside99]

which fish do you have multiples of?

 

[wbaker01]

Multiples of all but not sure of the sex of any of them...

 

[westside99]

fry are soo small that they prolly can fit in gravel and cracks on you aquarium floor cause as soon as they are born they are really small

 

[khombre]

Not too sure about this but from your fishlist, I'm thinking its the cories. :huh:

 

[plah831]

don't know which exactly of your fish are breeding, but yes fry do get between the gravel grains and hide out until they grow bigger. they do that in the wild, like salmon fry in streams do.

 

[Web Gazelle]

My guess would be the Corys. They will breed if water conditions are kept optimal. I had some Pandas breed in my tank once but the fry got eaten by my Gourami.