Michael P. O'Connor

As I said before, I found 6 fish fries in my tank back on May 26, I removed them to their own tank. Later I talked about the 5 zebra danios I had and I mentioned how I believed I must have lost one of the babies. Well this morning I found that I was wrong I did not loss the 6th fish, when I went to turn on the lights this morning on their tank, I see a fish swimming at the surface at the center front of the tank, my first thoughts was “oh no did I loss another baby” when I took a closer look I realized it was not one of my baby zebra danios, but it looked more like a baby Red Eyed Tetra (body shape being deeper and length being a bit shorter for the body depth). I took an even closer look, which scared the fish a way from where it was swimming. So it looks like I did not loss the 6th one but it was just hiding on me.

I am thinking that when it grows larger enough I will put it back in the main 20 gallon tank since it would be the only Red Eyed Tetra in the 10 gallon and they are schooling fish, so it would need other Red Eyed Tetras to be happy. The 5 zebra danios can stay in the 10 gallon tank since they are a school in and of themselves.

As soon as the baby fish get large enouph I will take some pictures of them for the web site.

Today I went to the pet store to pick up some more baby fish food for my baby zebra danios. While I was there I saw this beautiful betta. It has a white body with a red head and fins; I know that the colors of it will change over time as it becomes more comfortable with its new home. When I say with its new home I mean I did buy it, and a 10-gallon tank for it to live in. I had the water aged for the tank (I had 8 gallons of water aged. I took some rocks from one tank, and some java moss from a second tank for the new betta. I have 4 fish tanks going 1 20-gallon tank and 3 10-gallon tanks, 2 of those 10-gallon tanks house only 1 fish, and that is a betta each. I asked on a fish forum about having the betta tanks next to each other and the betas seeing each other, they said they will flare up a lot at first but once they get use to the fact that both are there and they can not get to each other they will calm down, so I put the 2 tanks next to each other. I moved the eMac to the main computer desk, so now I have 3 computer screens on the one desk and the 2 fish tanks on the other desk, and a bit of a place to do some paper work when I need to do paper work (read pay bills) I have also taken a video of the 2 bettas getting to know each other and you can see it in my video section by clicking on this link here. I did some editing to cut down on the time.

My baby fish have grown tremendously. I think I can ID them now. They are starting too look like zebra danios. I had the thought that they might be about 3 days ago, but was not sure, but they now not only developing the body of one, but the color pattern of them, and fin shape.

I took a few pictures of my Betta sporting his new color so take a look, his fins are looking very good, and healthy.

My betta colors seam to change again since I put him in the new 10 gallon tank, his fins have started to turn from red to a bright blue. Also all the plants I have put in the tank with him are doing fine, One of the Plants, in my other 20 gallon tank, leafs has grown to an enormous size. In the fry tank (the baby fish) I have started to put some live plants and some snails. I am going to start taking more plants out of the 20 gallon tank and put them in the 10 fry tank. I am thinking that I will be leaving the fry in the tank when they grow up. I will give them one kind of plants, full removing that spices from the 20 gallon tank, and leaving the water wisteria in the 20 gallon tank, I will move all the other plants to the 10 gallon fry tank, I have moved the onion plants and a few others to the betta tank.