Unfortunately it looks like only one of the fry has survived.
I’m not sure if it’s a male or a female, but I call “her” Daredevil. She has been swimming with the adults for about 3 days now, and although Red will go after her every once in a while, she doesn’t run too far.
I saw a teeny spot of black on her tail around 1/21/2007, and on 1/23/2007 I noticed a little yellow color right at the base of her tail. DH thinks its red though, so we’ll see what color it really is.
We also got 3 spotted cory cats last night.
They look like they are having a lot of fun, and 2 seem to be swimming around together while the third one is off by himself.
They are pretty fast, so it’s hard to get pictures of them, but we are trying.
I was planning on getting oto’s to clean the tank, but while we were at Petco they put a sign on the oto’s saying they weren’t for sale…then at Petsmart there were more dead ones than live ones in the tank.
I knew oto’s were hard to acclimate to the tank, since they are usually caught in the wild, and I just don’t want to deal with more dead fish :-(.
The spotted cories help clean the substrate (we’re actually using aquating planting media), and the main reason I wanted the oto’s was to clean the algae and the substrate.
Fortunately I realized that the magnet algae cleaner we got from walmart really works, so I don’t need to get a fish specifically to clean the algae off the glass.
