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There is an extra fish in my GSP's tank?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:24 am
by Kingsleys
A few months ago I got my first puffer. His name is Einstein. He was my only fish, or so I thought. A few weeks after I got him there was a little fish in the tank with him. I think it was like a baby tetra or something which was really weird. I never bought it. It's was transparent and it's back was blue while the middle part was reddish. It was also a little bit of silver-gold. I just left it in there. A few days later it was gone. Was it really a tetra or could it have been a baby GSP? I don't think it was because he was not with any other puffers and they don't breed in captivity.

Re: There is an extra fish in my GSP's tank?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:20 am
by Pufferpunk
My guess is guppy. Lots of LFS try feeding them to puffers.

Re: There is an extra fish in my GSP's tank?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 9:02 am
by RTR
+1 to Pufferpunk's comments above - newly released guppy fry can be hard to spot and quite good at hiding. It grew (likely by eating puffer leftover fragments from puffer food) and then got eaten itself.

Re: There is an extra fish in my GSP's tank?

Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:32 pm
by Pufferpunk
Especially with the colors described.