strange happenings with your tanks
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nice snails and fry. i have no guess of what they could be. sometimes the eggs are clear or really hard to see at all so i'm not surprised about them appearing. i had 6 white clouds in qt for about a month and when i moved them out i ended up with 80 or so fry appearing in the tank.
off topic, did you get a hold of some plants?
off topic, did you get a hold of some plants?
Strangest thing ATM would be finding fry one time in my tank. I thought the female has given birth and probably eaten them all, but I found 3 little fry they were trying to eat, so i scooped em up. anothe thing would be all my mollies dying the other day... still have no clue what happened
awww sorry to hear about your mollies, i would be devistated if my mollies died.
But congrats on your new babies, let us know what they turn out to be!:clap:
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don't quote me on this but for the sake of discussion they seem to be starting to get a cichlid type shape to them.
I've had fish totally disappear from my tanks a couple times. Couldn't find a body anywhere, in the tank or out. Just gone. One was a honey gourami and the other a balloon blue ram.
The other was a 20g long invert breeding tank with cherry shrimp, ramshorn snails, and pond snails. A few MTS had gotten in with plants too. The tank was going strong for over a year, and then one day I realized that I hadn't seen any snails in a while. Normally, they were all over the plants, decor, glass, in the filter, etc. I hadn't been paying a whole lot of attention to the tank for a couple weeks, just enough to drop some food in or do a quick WC but didn't really stop and look at it. There was enough movement from the shrimp that I guess I didn't think much of it, and there was enough plant cover that I guess I figured the snails were in there. When I thought about it, I realized how weird it was to not have snails on the glass. Then I looked hard and only found empty shells. The shrimp were doing great, and the nerite snails I introduced a couple months later are just fine. The only thing I can figure is the planaria at the eggs, thus stopping the expansion and renewal of the snail colony, but I'm still baffled about what happened to the adults.
The other was a 20g long invert breeding tank with cherry shrimp, ramshorn snails, and pond snails. A few MTS had gotten in with plants too. The tank was going strong for over a year, and then one day I realized that I hadn't seen any snails in a while. Normally, they were all over the plants, decor, glass, in the filter, etc. I hadn't been paying a whole lot of attention to the tank for a couple weeks, just enough to drop some food in or do a quick WC but didn't really stop and look at it. There was enough movement from the shrimp that I guess I didn't think much of it, and there was enough plant cover that I guess I figured the snails were in there. When I thought about it, I realized how weird it was to not have snails on the glass. Then I looked hard and only found empty shells. The shrimp were doing great, and the nerite snails I introduced a couple months later are just fine. The only thing I can figure is the planaria at the eggs, thus stopping the expansion and renewal of the snail colony, but I'm still baffled about what happened to the adults.
