akaxo Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 is there anyway of telling from looking at the fry to know what kind of fish they are? i have four that appeared in an outside pond i have that just has snails in it and is a breeding spot for mosquito larvae for feeding to fish. there is only two possible places they could have come from that i can think of: a few mountain minnow eggs on some water cress roots that i recently moved from the fish pond to the other pond or wild eggs attached to some duckweed i got from a local river and put in it. the fry are now in a small tank by themselves and are growing well and eating mashed up cooked egg yolk. they have a quite distinctive bright blue stripe down them. i'd have thought that if the mountain minnows bred i'd have more than four? actually kind of exciting not knowing for sure what they are and watching them grow. i guess i can relate to people who don't want to know the sex of their baby before giving birth ha. i'd post a photo but really all the ones i took are about as useful as looking at a tank with only oxygen weed and four little fuzzy blurs floating in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 May be that is all that survived? Other predators might have eaten the white cloud mountain minnow eggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanmin4304 Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 White clouds are called "poor mans neons" for a reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaxo Posted January 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 so most likely mountain minnows then, cheers. there were comets in the pond too which would be where any other eggs went. guess i should count myself lucky to have the four ha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supasi Posted January 2, 2012 Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 Sounds like WCMM to me Do they look like this? Borrowed that image from the net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaxo Posted January 2, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2012 oh yeah that's them for sure. thanks for that, i did a google image search for mountain minnow fry or something like that the other day but didn't find anything that good. they're not quite that big yet though. first time i've had fish breed guess that makes me a grandpa... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 wouldn't it just make you a pa? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrienne Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 wouldn't it just make you a pa? Only if he's the father of the fry :rotf: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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