strange happenings with your tanks

Ok update on the mystery fry

The attrition rate seems to be at 5% on the bad side, on the good side I am watching the remaining hit the food that I crumble in from the top to the bottom.

I will take a couple of pics this weekend. Am going to attempt to do a wc on the tank without sucking out the fry.
 
I have been watching to see if any of them are big enough to get a better picture. The growth has been roughly 10% in body mass. I have been crushing flake food and putting in some pellets made by nutrifin max and it is funny to watch these tiny little fry rip and tear at food so much larger than they are.

I decided last weekend that there really were not any big enough to get a solid picture of. I am not sure of the growth rate for fry but it seems to me that they really are not fast growers. I will for sure take a picture of the larger ones.

I have a lady who wants to buy this 55g for $250 so I might move the fry to a 20g that I have set up in the hall way, or I might just turn her down or try to sell her another of my tanks as I really don't want to disturb this tank, but $250 for a 55g is real tempting.
 
if they are cichlids these are the only ones that were in the tank

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I took my kids to the humane society on a whim just to look about and here they had a tank of these 13 which had been dropped off 3 weeks earlier, bad tank no water change so I offered to rehome them for them. Gave them a $10 donation for them filled out the paperwork and hurried to get them home, was only a 12 minute drive and I lost one in the bucket and 2 more in the next few days. Yet, the rest recovered very nicely and are now in a 100g. I moved them from the 55g along with all the other fish and was just gonna leave it as a snail breedery.

The other fish in the tank were calico comets I rescued from being sold as feeders, and the entire stock of small tetras, barbs and other fish that were left at the petcetera as it went to the shutdown.

I will definitely show pics this weekend as I figure by that time a couple will be big enough. What puzzles me though is the fry show a straight horizontal stripe and no verticle.
 
ok so tonight I tried to get a good pic of the fry and this is the best I could come up with

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I think what I am going to do is net up a couple of the bigger ones and take some close up shots of them in the fine mesh net.
 
The stripe kind of makes it look like a pygmy cory catfish... (see pic to your left here)
 
what kind of puzzles me is the slow growth rate of these fish much slower than any other cichlid I have had produced in any of my tanks. and that the only cichlids I had in the tank were the male and female peacocks pictured above in the thread and they dont have a horizontal body stripe, that is unless it is a juvi coloration that fades when adult design shows up
 
hmmm... such a mysetry. I thought they looked cichlid shaped, but as you say the stripe is off.
Can't wait to see what happens.
 
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