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A month ago I bought 2 little parrot fish, one the size of a 50p the other smaller....Today when I was about to clean them out discovered 100's of baby fish! what they are and where they have come from is a mystery! I have a breeding pair of parrots which are 4-5inches big, they lay eggs and nothing ever comes of them....These two new ones are babys, so where have all these baby fish come from??:roll: :shock:
Under the gooseberry bush?? :-D
dinahsmum
16-01-2007, 06:23 PM
Well Moli, when a mummy parrot fish and a daddy parrot fish love each other very very, much .........
The stork brought them? :-D
The stork brought them? :-D
Well Moli, when a mummy parrot fish and a daddy parrot fish love each other very very, much .........
Thank you ladies you have been a real help!:roll: :lol: :lol:
The two baby parrots are in a tank of their own, so cannot blame the breeding pair for these...
Thank you ladies you have been a real help!:roll: :lol: :lol:
The two baby parrots are in a tank of their own, so cannot blame the breeding pair for these...
Was I right? :?
dinahsmum
16-01-2007, 06:32 PM
Seriously, could there have been teeny tiny microscopic eggs in the water you brought the babies home in? They've grown and hatched (maybe in the gravel so you didn't see them)
Was I right? :?
Don't know if you know Mags, but fish cannot live outside water, so don't think your gooseberry bush is the answer either!:roll: :roll: :lol:
Seriously, could there have been teeny tiny microscopic eggs in the water you brought the babies home in? They've grown and hatched (maybe in the gravel so you didn't see them)
I was thinking the same Moli?
If there were eggs in the water DM, they would have hatched after a week, I have had these fish just over a month....These babys are ll in a huge pot, and every time one gets out, the parrot catches it and puts it back, they are acting like they are their babies....But really cannot see how they can be, they are far too young!
If there were eggs in the water DM, they would have hatched after a week, I have had these fish just over a month....These babys are ll in a huge pot, and every time one gets out, the parrot catches it and puts it back, they are acting like they are their babies....But really cannot see how they can be, they are far too young!
It sounds very fishy to me Moli! ;)
It sounds very fishy to me Moli! ;)
One of lifes mysteries Mags, and to think I have been trying to get babies from the breeding pair for ages!:roll:
How long do they take to grow into something recognisable?
How long do they take to grow into something recognisable?
They should start to resemble fish in about a week, bought liquifry for them to feed them up, there are loads of them!:shock:
Any chance of a photo Moli or are they too small?
Any chance of a photo Moli or are they too small?
Too small at the moment, all you can really see are two dark eyes, their bodies are transparent at the moment...
Donna
16-01-2007, 07:46 PM
Very strange - cannot add any intelligent answers to solve your mystery I am afraid!!
If they are parrots, the fish shop will be kicking themselves, baby parrots cost between 12-£16 each!!
borderdawn
16-01-2007, 08:41 PM
Now moli I am not getting into another "Fishy" conversation with you and the fact that these fish are "Parrots" is somewhat worrying! So Ill fly off and leave you to feather the nest for these baby creatures!
Look forward to seeing them. Can you not take pics of the swimming eyes?
Dawn.
Hmmm, very fishy! You could sell them back to the pet shop Moli!!!
Now moli I am not getting into another "Fishy" conversation with you and the fact that these fish are "Parrots" is somewhat worrying! So Ill fly off and leave you to feather the nest for these baby creatures!
Look forward to seeing them. Can you not take pics of the swimming eyes?
Dawn.
I could try, but they are so tiny would probably comeout as specks of dirt!:lol:
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 09:45 PM
Do Parrot fishes tend their young, or are they cannibalistic?
They look after them DM, as soon as one gets out of the pot, they scoop them up in their mouths and put it back in.....very protective of their young..
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 09:56 PM
So, in effect, you're sort of sitting on a pot of gold in that tank?! Would the fish store buy some of them back....that's an awful lot of Parrot fishes if most of them survive !!
borderdawn
16-01-2007, 09:59 PM
If the bigger fish are babies then who is looking after the baby babies?
dawn.
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 10:07 PM
Maybe they're precocious and just smallfor their age, Dawn...those baby Parrots came from somewhere, and not from the cabbage patch...:-D
You cod always find a plaice to sell them Moli - and I'm sure you'd have a whale of a time tring to catch the little bloaters :-D
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 10:22 PM
Groan!! Oh Mags........:-D
You cod always find a plaice to sell them Moli - and I'm sure you'd have a whale of a time tring to catch the little bloaters :-D
Oh Mags *groan* :roll: :-D
You cod always find a plaice to sell them Moli - and I'm sure you'd have a whale of a time tring to catch the little bloaters :-D
You are on a roll tonight Mags!:lol: :lol:
I belong to the local aquarist society, have done for the past 12 years, they will buy them off me, but as they have started producing already, got a feeling, like rabbits they will do it again...and.....again!!
If the bigger fish are babies then who is looking after the baby babies?
dawn.The big babies are looking after the little babies...:lol:
I belong to the local aquarist society, have done for the past 12 years, they will buy them off me, but as they have started producing already, got a feeling, like rabbits they will do it again...and.....again!!
:shock: :shock: :shock:....you'll be a millionairess in no time at that rate Moli ......... just remember the Catsey Crew! ;):-D
:shock: :shock: :shock:....you'll be a millionairess in no time at that rate Moli ......... just remember the Catsey Crew! ;):-D
THE WHO?????:roll:
THE WHO?????:roll:
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dandysmom
16-01-2007, 10:33 PM
I belong to the local aquarist society, have done for the past 12 years, they will buy them off me, but as they have started producing already, got a feeling, like rabbits they will do it again...and.....again!! And you can't spay fish, and chastity belts would be such a nuisance ...:-D
And you can't spay fish, and chastity belts would be such a nuisance ...:-D
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And you can't spay fish, and chastity belts would be such a nuisance ...:-D
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I will just have to feed them to my sons two lobsters...
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 10:39 PM
Pretty pricy fare for the lobsters...but then, it would fatten them up nicely (visions of bibs and drawn butter...):-D
:shock: :shock: :shock: His lobsters are pets DM....
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 10:42 PM
:shock: :shock: :shock: His lobsters are pets DM.... I was just kidding, Moli.......
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 10:56 PM
Mags, when I was a little kid, got a chick for Easter (didn't know way back then that it wasn't a good thing) , and he grew up of course into a rooster. When he started to crow, someome complained (chickens in the City are illegal); a policeman showed up at the door to my Mom"s embarrassment and said get rid of it...and Mom and I almost died when my Dad said something about fried chicken!!! (Took him a long time to live that one down!). Anyway, Henry went to live with the egg man, supposedly to live a long happy life on the farm, but probably ended up as ....fried chicken...so, I really don't advocate eating pets....:roll:
:lol: Good story Eileen ....... poor Henry wasn't doing any harm in the town, was he :(
I wouldn't have liked the thought of him ending up as fried chicken though :shock::lol:
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 11:16 PM
Technically, he was illegal just being in the City, and as he crowed loudly at dawn it annoyed someone...hence the policeman at the door! Funny, I could never even contemplate eating Henry, but had no qualms about holding the chicken at my Grandma's so she could chop off its head...stewed chicken and dumplings for dinner...guess kids can compartmentalize the difference between pet chickens and food chickens ....
charliebubs
16-01-2007, 11:23 PM
hahahahaha - just discovered this thread. I'm sure that some of you ladies on here are quite mad!!!!!!! lol
Looking forward to seeing pics of the baby parrott fish as soon as they are big enough. :)
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 11:27 PM
Actually, would like to see pics of the adult Parrot fish...the big ones that won't breed...Moli?
Will go and see if I can get some for you DM...
borderdawn
16-01-2007, 11:30 PM
Mad? us? dont know what you mean!:-D
Its just that Moli has Parrots, for fish, and they are babies, too much of babies to have babies, but they have, had babies that is, or have they? See Moli likes to confuse us, with aliens and things, and things of a strange nature, like things disappearing on RAF ranges or something if I remember correctly. We worry about our Moli at times we do. :-D
Dawn.
dandysmom
16-01-2007, 11:36 PM
Oh Lord, Dawn, I'd forgotten that bit about stuff disappearing on the RAF range,,,:-D
Mad? us? dont know what you mean!:-D
Its just that Moli has Parrots, for fish, and they are babies, too much of babies to have babies, but they have, had babies that is, or have they? See Moli likes to confuse us, with aliens and things, and things of a strange nature, like things disappearing on RAF ranges or something if I remember correctly. We worry about our Moli at times we do. :-D
Dawn.
Hope you are not implying I am mad Dawn!:roll: :lol: things appeared on the MOD site, things I had lost weeks before...:?
Sweet
17-01-2007, 10:06 AM
ah....I think Ive found Moli's babies, its her fish LOL, was lost on the other post - :oops: x
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