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By lomelindi from the bewildered department, Section Diaries Posted on Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 01:42:31 PM PST Tags: (all tags)

How unbelievably strange. o.o

Alright... I was changing the water in the temporary tank I have my fry in. It's not filtered, because the underground filter kinda sucks up the poor babies, but it's only until my main tank's columnaris clears up.

So.. I was painstakingly scooping out the six fry from the tank, so I could -attempt- the underground filter.. which incidentally didn't work out. In any case, I found five. After much poking and prodding in the moss and the gravel, I found a tiny lifeless body of a sixth. A shame, I thought, but it wasn't the end of the world. I washed the dead body off and proceeded to do a partial water change and to dump everything out so the underground could go in.

I put the gravel, plant, and water back in, added fresh water, then poured the babies back in.

Time passes.

I peer into the tank, and count... ...six babies.

...

There have never been more than six babies in that tank, and what I pulled out was definitely a freshly dead fry. That one never went back into the tank, or could have.

What on earth? O.O

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The amazing reappearing guppy. | 3 comments (3 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: The amazing reappearing guppy. (none / 0) (#1)
by miskairal on Fri Jul 15, 2005 at 07:03:57 PM PST

Dp you mean you removed the "dead" fry from the tank and never put it back in or near the tank? Is it possible it stuck to a net or something that you used to remove it?

Let us know if you work out what happened.
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Fry do get drawn down below a filter plate. (none / 0) (#2)
by unclescott on Fri Jul 15, 2005 at 08:51:55 PM PST

A few small livebearers or killies could get by for a time on food scraps drawn down. What is more amazing is that it would have to have survived getting buried by gravel and hosed down by the rinsing. To not have been crushed, water shocked or washed away is indeed almost unbelieveable! If you didn't really pound the gravel, it is possible it sloshed to the side and hung on... ;)

Are you sure that the sixth one wasn't stuck to the plants? I've whisked hiding fry out with plants more than once.

A neat story and fun speculating, whatever happened. Some guppies are pretty tough!

All the best,
unc

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Re: Fry do get drawn down below a filter plate. (none / 0) (#3)
by lomelindi on Sat Jul 16, 2005 at 12:37:48 PM PST

...hmm.

I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but you might be right in the sense....

That the dead fry was actually tangled up in the grass, having been moved from the big tank while dead. And.. perhaps the actual sixth live fry was in the gravel when I emptied the tank.

I -did- find one baby in the very corner when I dumped the gravel and water back in on top of the filter plate, but I thought he'd just gotten sucked down there by the filter.

...that's horrible. I'm so glad I saw him, or he would have died, buried alive. o.O I want these guys to live, because they're the only offspring of one of two very special males given to me by a friend of mine... I felt bad about them dying under my care, so I wanted to surprise him some time down the road...

Sorry, rambling. I think that's what might have happened. You're right, these little guys -are- tough.

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The amazing reappearing guppy. | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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