Fry pictures and a sad story with not such a bad ending

[DigitalBoy]

Hi there. Has been a while since I posted on this forum - summer vacation.

Anyways, 2 months ago I had a misfortune - I moved apisto cacatuoides with eggs into a small tank (6 gallon eclipse), but she turned out to be sick - had a pop eye, so unfortunatelly I had to end her sufferings.
Since that moment I've stopped looking into the tank (located on my table), there were only a pair of shrimp left. I belived that the fry would never survive without mom and I could not see it in the tank.

A month later here I am, browsing the net on my laptop and I noticed some movement in the tank, I glance, and to my greatest amazement I see.. a few fry maybe 3-4 mm long! That was soo cool.

Anyways, now they are more than 1 cm and you can take a look at the tank and the fry on www.tanksetups.com

Good luck.

Dmitry

 

[Neil]

DigitalBoy,
That's great. You never know about those crazy apistos,huh. That has happened to me once or twice. Thought they were eaten or died in a tank problem and days or even weeks later a few show up. They can really keep themselves out of sight when they want to and it really seems that they can do pretty well sometimes on just minimal food. Probably alot like what they have to deal with in nature.