How'd that get in there??

[jarrodaden]

I was cleaning my Eheim Ecco out earlier today. It was a bit overdue and I was horrified by the amount of "goop" in there. Fortunately, this is an easy filter to clean. As I was rinsing the various sections, I noticed something wriggling in the cleaning bucket. It was a fry. As I was carefully trying to rescue it from pookey hades, I noticed that there was actually a total of 4 in the filter.

I am almost certain that this is a guppy fry but they could possibly be red jewel cichlid fry. Whichever they are, they have been in this filter for a long time and I am shocked that they survived.

They are now trying to figure out what to do in there new "giant" home (15 gallon).

I guess you never know what you will find when you clean...

[mnemenoi]

I found a Dwarf Gourami that had apparently survived nearly 6 months in an old undergravel filter years ago, I figured only Kuhli loaches could survive and breed in them.

[wesleydnunder]

I just cleaned out the ECCO on my cherry shrimp tank yesterday and found about 4 dozen shrimp in the media. What really surprises me about this is the filter has a sponge intake on it and the shrimp larvae got past it.

Mark