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cybermeez
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I Have Baby Kuhlis!

Post by cybermeez » Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:34 pm

I did a big post-levamisole treatment water change on the 120g loach tank today and accidentally shut off my Eheim Pro canister filter. In the process of priming it for re-start I usually put a brine shrimp net on the out flow to keep bacterial mulm from clouding up the display tank. I did this as usually today but this time after the punp restarted I discovered a 1" striped Kuhli fry in the net! I'm really surprised to find him given that the tank has had a theraputic level of levamisole in it for the past 2 days.

He probably has brothers and sisters in the canister filter, but I don't want to remove them because they're only the size of large bloodworms right now and I don't want themto get eaten by the much bigger Clowns and other fish in the tank. I also don't want to let this little guy loose in the tank for the same reason so I'm soing to the fish ship to find a baby fish box I can keep in the tank until he gets bigger. At his size I imagine he'll take crushed flake or brine shrimp napuli, but is there anything else I should be doing for him? Here's a photo of the little guy:

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Re: I Have Baby Kuhlis!

Post by redshark1 » Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:33 pm

All together now ... Awwww :o !
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Re: I Have Baby Kuhlis!

Post by cybermeez » Mon Apr 02, 2012 9:53 pm

redshark1 wrote:All together now ... Awwww :o !
:D
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Re: I Have Baby Kuhlis!

Post by Jim Powers » Mon Apr 02, 2012 11:59 pm

Congratulations!!! I hope you find more. :D
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Re: I Have Baby Kuhlis!

Post by kcartwright856 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:41 am

So incredibly cute!

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Re: I Have Baby Kuhlis!

Post by starsplitter7 » Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:45 am

Wow! What a great find. :) Thanks for posting a picture. It seems that Kuhlies arrive accidently. :)

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Re: I Have Baby Kuhlis!

Post by NancyD » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:28 pm

What a cool find, congrats! Can't you set up a small tank somewhere for him/them?
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