WELL, I'LL BE.....

[tarnold]

I was going through my sump this morning (about a 30gal mud filter) when i discovered a fish. More to the point a bangaii cardinal. He is about 1/2". My question is how did he get there? I had a pair although one has since disappeared. I know they breed and the only thing I can thin of is that one of the fry must have gone through the overflow ( a 75gal oceanic reef tank) and even though there is a foam filter, he must have been small enough to have gone though a hole. He's now about 1/2" so I don't know how long he's been in there Quite interesting what you find in the sump.

 

[wombat1]

Wow! Are you sure it's not one of the parents? You must have a healthy tank to raise one without even knowing it! Sorry to jack your thread, but I had a similar thing happen to a tank. I recently found a 1 inch snail in a fish only tank, with fake corals and dead lava rock as decorations. It somehow managed to survive a trigger and puffer as well. I do the maintenance and I know for sure that it wasn't introduced on purpose, and the only living things added were fish. I'm guessing a snail larvae hitchhiked in the shipping water with a fish, and grew up in the tank.

 

[tarnold]

It's amazing what you find. The parents or now parent is close to 2 inches. This one is only about 1/2". My first though was it was the missing one but that would be even more amazing.

 

[ride928]

My latest find was a baby starfish. Too small to tell what kind it is yet.

 

[Expos Forever]

I've heard of people finding baby banggais in their overflows but never in the sump. I'm glad your hard work at breeding marine fish has finally paid off. :wink:

 

[NaH2Ofreak]

Maybe it IS the missing parent after all and 1 and 1/2 inches of it got filtered out going thru the sponge! 8O

:lol:

Dennis