Crazy Stuff...

[oddjob142]

So my lights had stopped working after I came back from being out of town.  I was down in the bottom, near the wet/dry filter, shining my flashlight aroundwhen I noticed.......BABY FISH swimming around there.  there was a .5" one in the main recieving area before it goes into the sponge.  I also found another one in the compartment AFTER the bio balls.  He was about .25", but how did he get through the bioballs?  I cant tell what they are either...i am assuming from what they look like, some peacocks.  Do yellow labs look like peacocks when fry?  

Regardless...I wanted to share the crazy story...

[Spot86t]

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lol - sounds like the weird stuf that happens to me!

I got some plants from a fellow box'er and put them in a temporary small tank with an airstone and a piece of sponge that used to cover the intake from one of my hob filters.  I've been "feeding" it shrimp pellets and adding fertilizer, and it's got a good light over it so it's kinda like a planted tank with no fish.  Or so I thought...  Lo and behold, a few weeks later I'm geting ready to move it into it's more permanent location and I notice some darn near microscopic fry swimming around in it!  I've absolutely no clue what they are, but the sponge came from a tank that housed rainbows - red irians, turquoise and praecox's and 2 king tiger plecos.  They're clearly not plecos but they're smaller fry than my ivantsoffi were even immediately after hatching!  No clue what the growth rate is, so I'm keeping them isolated until I know what they are.  

Luckily I have the vinegar eels for the Ivantsoffis, that's what I've been feeding them, along with some greenwater.

[armthehomeless]

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Yellow labs have a bit of yellow on them after they are a week old (some when the are spit). I think your other assumption would be correct. They are probably peacock fry. Congratulations on the discovery.

As a comparison, I have an interesting wet/dry story as well.  I was preparing to move, so fish parts were everywhere. I have just gotten rid of a 210, but had held onto the the wet/dry. I moved it into another room while I was preparing thing to get ready for the move. The wet dry was placed about 2 feet away from a 55 gallon Tanganyikan tank. Something came up, and I had to be gone for about three days. When I came back, I noticed that my large male Cyp had disappeared. I then noticed that there was an opening in the aquarium. Sine cyps are good jumpers, I started looking around on the ground. Nothing. I have two cats, so I assumed that he became lunch and called off the search. A couple days later, I was cleaning out the wet dry, when I noticed that there was something swimming around. The cyp managed to jump out of the tank and several feet away straight into the wet/dry. I had lucked out. I put him back into the tank and secured the lid.

[eklikewhoa]

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I have Nerites in my overflows.

[oddjob142]

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Lol...funny stuff.  I also noticed some shell like things in the wet/dry.  looks like mini shelled snails.  is that normal?

[NDsuperduty]

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did the ones that got past the bioballs survive or were they already gone?

[eklikewhoa]

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I have noticed lots of snails build up/gather in other peoples wet/dry as well.

[oddjob142]

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he SURVIVED...i took him out last night and put him with the other in the return compartment.  He was only half the size of the other...probably b/c there is so much food and stuff in the other compartment.

[Drew]

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Had a wet/dry system on my 135 and constantly had snails ghost shrimp living in the sump both before and after the sponge and blue pad leading to the bioball chamber and in the return area.  Living things just find a way somehow, but the shrimp and snails kept the sump nice and  clean!  I eventually quit trying to clean them out of there and let them hang out.