Jim Brown
July 5th 03, 01:58 PM
Considering a size of less than 1 mm, they are undoubtedly 'bugs'.
Had they been larger, they might have been either of the tiger barbs or any
of the Cory's. The rest are either known to have not spawned in captivity,
or it is a rare event following a lot of dedicated care and luck.
Jim
D&M > wrote in message
...
> I've never had any fry in my tank before, never seen fry. I went to clean
> out my HOT Magnum tonight and it was alive. Tiny specs running from the
> light. The tank the HOT was polishing has clown loaches and plecos, zebra
> loaches, yoyo loaches, bala sharks, serpae tetras, alb. cories, bronze
> cories, spec. cories, pim. cats., tiger barbs, green tiger barbs, and
ottos.
>
> They dart out of the light so fast I can barely see them, they're so
small,
> they have to be 1mm or under, some cling to the side of the filter before
> the light hits them, then dart away. Tiny little dots. This is the first
> time I actually took a close look in the filter before cleaning since I
> found platty babes a few weeks ago in a different tanks filter.
>
> By any chance is this young'uns, or some critters deciding to make it's
home
> in my tank in the last couple days?
>
> If anyones online right now, can you give me a heads up please. If they're
> young'uns I'll save them, if bugs, I'll finish cleaning the filter.
>
> Thanks
>
>
Had they been larger, they might have been either of the tiger barbs or any
of the Cory's. The rest are either known to have not spawned in captivity,
or it is a rare event following a lot of dedicated care and luck.
Jim
D&M > wrote in message
...
> I've never had any fry in my tank before, never seen fry. I went to clean
> out my HOT Magnum tonight and it was alive. Tiny specs running from the
> light. The tank the HOT was polishing has clown loaches and plecos, zebra
> loaches, yoyo loaches, bala sharks, serpae tetras, alb. cories, bronze
> cories, spec. cories, pim. cats., tiger barbs, green tiger barbs, and
ottos.
>
> They dart out of the light so fast I can barely see them, they're so
small,
> they have to be 1mm or under, some cling to the side of the filter before
> the light hits them, then dart away. Tiny little dots. This is the first
> time I actually took a close look in the filter before cleaning since I
> found platty babes a few weeks ago in a different tanks filter.
>
> By any chance is this young'uns, or some critters deciding to make it's
home
> in my tank in the last couple days?
>
> If anyones online right now, can you give me a heads up please. If they're
> young'uns I'll save them, if bugs, I'll finish cleaning the filter.
>
> Thanks
>
>