Aquariums: Need help identifying little guys that spawned in a fishless/cycling/new tank!
I’m two weeks into cycling and nitrites just started showing up a day or two ago. I’ve been staring at my tank and everyday so was very perplexed when I was these little guys last night while testing my parameters!
Posted by greencomrade
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Nigim on
In this state is quite impossible to which fish they are.. probably the eggs were on the plants and somehow survived until now. It a lot more common than you would think
They’re most likely some kind of livebearer. Guppies or endlers, probably. If you want, you could put them in a container with clean water and change it regularly until the tank is cycled and you can add them back in. You could also look up how to do an in-fish cycle and do it like that, they should be fine. They’re pretty hardy fish.
Just dose the water with seachem safe if you want them to survive. It will detoxify the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.
greencomrade on
Also sorry for all the typos in my post, I have major dyslexia 😭
AyaanDB on
if thats guppy fry as comments say, then i have no clue how they made it in there. maybe got scooped up along with some plants you got if you got them locally, if you got everything online then idk
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In this state is quite impossible to which fish they are.. probably the eggs were on the plants and somehow survived until now. It a lot more common than you would think
https://preview.redd.it/ftjrncoce1pg1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82f902bac10944c1efe8ff844f11a3b80b7c5544
adding a screenshot because Reddit compressed the video (it’s super blurry on my end)
https://preview.redd.it/0185d2r0f1pg1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1ac0002f8b908a8cce5711fe427f76d90f01f551
Baby fish.
They’re most likely some kind of livebearer. Guppies or endlers, probably. If you want, you could put them in a container with clean water and change it regularly until the tank is cycled and you can add them back in. You could also look up how to do an in-fish cycle and do it like that, they should be fine. They’re pretty hardy fish.
Those are fry
As others said, looks to be live bearer fry, likely guppies or endlers. You’ll need tiny baby fish food [like this spirulina fish food on chewy.](https://www.chewy.com/zoo-med-spirulina-20-fish-food/dp/154753?utm_source=app-share&utm_campaign=154753) you may need to crush it up small, but that’s easy to do between your finger & thumb.
Just dose the water with seachem safe if you want them to survive. It will detoxify the ammonia, nitrite and nitrate.
Also sorry for all the typos in my post, I have major dyslexia 😭
if thats guppy fry as comments say, then i have no clue how they made it in there. maybe got scooped up along with some plants you got if you got them locally, if you got everything online then idk