fishbites Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 I've had a few fry growing in a tank of mystery snails the last week or so and finally they are large enough to try to take a photo of them - poor quality but enough to see their shape/colour pattern... But what are they? They are only about 1cm long at the moment and happily swimming round my shrimp tank and have grown quite quickly (hopefully by not snacking on baby shrimp!) The only other fish to have used this tank have been bristlenoses. There is one piece of driftwood in there that I had in another bristlenose tank and it has a few java ferns on it which I got from the LFS. I can only guess that the eggs came along with the java fern but the LFS plant tank only contains live bearing fish so I'm stumped as to how these got in the tank and what they are... Can anyone recognise them at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 They look like SA cichlids, but I couldn't say which. They look a lot like my severums from years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbites Posted September 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 I've got some gold sev's at the moment but too small to breed... if they are sev's they would be greens going on their dark markings but they look to have vertical black stripes... they definitely have a cichlid look to them don't they? Oh well... will just have to keep growing them to see what they are... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bender Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Ooh, that is exciting! They remind me of some convict fry I saw at my LFS,heres a link to a pic of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbites Posted September 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 They do look like those convict fry don't they! but.... how.... ? My convicts have never had plants or driftwood in their tanks.... the only convict fry I have are minute compared to this trio (and where there's one convict theres a hundred!) Looks like the mystery is solved though .. unless there is another cichlid similar looking at that age... Thanks Julia for the pic link... now I'll just dump them in with the other 300 convicts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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