Dottyback offspring out of nowhere!

[Aqua Pro Builder]

I found a lone juvenile Orchid dotty back in my sale tank where there has not been an adult Orchid for like 4-5 months and this tank is constantly flooded with more than 20 clowns, other smaller fish like gobies and such.

It must have been spawned by some previous adults that I sold and this lone fry survived til now into a juvenile. Life force is amazing. It did not require my attention, separation rearing and such. The sale tank is so populated and yet it can find enough food to grow from an egg to this viable size.


BTW, there is another interesting treat for me this morning, I also found peppermint shrimp that I have not seen at for half a year in my personal tank. It is so fat and chubby that it's bigger than my small fire shrimp. But I wonder why I still have aptasia in that tank :grumpy:

 

[Reef Reaper]

very nice!! Do you have any pics?

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

very nice!! Do you have any pics?

Haha, I wish. I did not even know it's there for that many months meaning it has been hiding very well. If not because the other day I transferred all the fish to the "Doomsday Tank", it would not have come out. Good that I decided to keep the water for at least one or two days after the transfer or it would have been dried in the rocks.

I guess it is getting bigger and more confident to show himself these days. So I will eventually get a shot of him. Well... too optimistic... i guess...even an adult is hard to snap a pic and we are talking about a juvenile successfully hidden from me and other fish for months!


BTW, I think the roti does help. I don't mean to feed roti to the sale tank because I did not expect to have babies anyway. I used coffee filter, so after I suck up the water born roti for my danios babies, I rinse the filter in the sale tank. I think that have kept him alive in the early days. I shut down my roti culture last month keeping only one bottle of green water. May be I should restart the roti and constantly feeding every tank I have with them as a supplement to the food chain. I will need another culture from you again. HAHHHAHA

Also I think the low tech tanks setup actually helped too. I run basically only air pump and a power head with a HUGE foam where suction force is very dispersed. So there is no overflow, drain pipe down draft or impeller to kill the frys. Same as my FW setups, tanks that have overflow can never keep danio frys nor CRS shrimplets. Pico tanks that run bubblers will raise a lot of them

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

very nice!! Do you have any pics?

Oh I never see you your babies' pic neither. Where did you hide all your secret off springs?

 

[Awibrandy]

Awww, congratulations Papa Wingo!

 

[cybermeez]

To not get eaten AND not get sucked into the filter...impressive little critter!