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So, I was cleaning my fish tank last night and wanted to clean the artificial plants as well since they were quite dirty, and guess what I found when I lifted the plants!

You can tell they are super tiny if you compare it to the size of the gravel (the gravel bits are bigger than the fish in some cases). I incubated two in a separate container (more on that later) but these two babies were so hard to catch! They move super fast (since they are so small, may explain why they were able to hide from the bigger fishies too… survival of the fittest I guess) AND they are actually small enough to fit in between the gravel… took me a good half hour to catch just two. In fact, I was a little confused as to whether there was a third one or not – best of luck to it surviving with the big fishes if there is.

Now the two babies I have – they are now in a separate jar that has two small holes near the top, and the entire jar is back in the main tank. That way they are protected from the big fish, but the water hopefully will still mix with the main tank, that way the water temperature and parameters would be the same (otherwise I’d have to get another smaller tank and get heating and what not for it too). I’m feeding the babies baby brine shrimp and crushed flakes, but I can’t really tell if they are eating it since they are so tiny :|. And worst of all, I still don’t know who the mom is :@ I guess there’s a primary suspect since her belly is rather plump, but I swear her graviol spot did not turn dark in this past week… and this matters because the female swordfish can store sperm in them and will likely deliver another batch of babies in another 60 days 😐

If these babies survive and grow up to rejoin the main tank, I may give them names 🙂

UPDATE: babies died after 3 days ‘cuz the incubation part of the tank wasn’t getting enough waterflow, so the water quality was very horrible there (whereas the rest of the tank was fine). Sad Face 🙁