strange happenings with your tanks

[kyryah]

Those absolutely positively look like cories to me. Look at how they are all almost headstanding on the sponge - classic cory feeding posture.

I vote 100% cory, probably corydoras pygmaeus. They look nothing like cichlids to me at this point.

Kristina

 

[chefjamesscott]

tank update

I will take some pictures when I get home

The snails have laid 4 clutches of eggs in the past 2 weeks, 1 which has hatched. So that plan is working fine will now look at selling some of them and putting some of them in other tanks.

I added 3 red claw aquatic fiddler crabs for clean up, as well as 11 ghost shrimp.

Tonight when I was at the petsmart I found the craziest looking pleco's. I did not have enough money to buy them all so I bought 5 of them and will send my wife back for the other 4. They are albino have red eyes and look just like a common pleco, they are not bristlenose as they lack the barbles on the front. I will take a few pics when I get home of them. I have never seen an albino regular pleco ever will need an id on them as well if anyone is a pleco fan.

 

[chefjamesscott]

ok so here are the pics of the plecos for id, I looked long an hard and can find no side barbs as my other bristlenose plecs have, and there are no front barbels other than the ones that are normal for plecs. My camera does not do well on picking up the red eyes but here are 3 shots I took last night, they are about 3 inches in length and were in the pet store for 4 days so I know they are not pale due to being on deathbed

and a crab shot

 

[Dwarf Puffers]

Those look exactly like the albino commons I saw once in Calgary. And I vote cories on the fry as well

 

[ODPILOT]

I had this happen with my Lemon Tetras. I had a 36 bow front tank that was very well planted, in fact, a bit too overgrown. I had 4 lemon tetras and when I was vacumming the gravel one morning, I noticed a smaller lemon tetra hiding behind a plant. Yes, it was a baby lemon tetra that had somehow managed to hatch, live and grow, without me even knowing that they were spawning. See what happens after you turn the lights out !!
Mike

 

[dtl92]

any new updates?

 

[Reframer]

We need some updated pics please. Are they cories?

 

[BigFishKeeper]

Any Updates chef?
-Alex

 

[Reframer]

Dang, I was hoping for updates (and I'm really bored).

 

[chefjamesscott]

ok finally the little babies are big enough to warrant an update.

I took a string of shots over the past month or so where I really wanted to get clear shots, weeded through them all and have some to post.

The interesting thing is how the fry horizontal stripe is disappearing as they grow to become what it will be when they are adult cichlids.

Here are the shots I took

the gratuitous snail shot

and my cori score they sold me this as a normal cory for 3 bucks