Well that was easy.. furcatus breeding

My new breeding challenge of breeding with Rainbows - Pseudomugil Furcatus has gone 10 times faster than I ever could have expected....

After first getting them home I put them in my cherry shrimp tank for a few days to give me time to prepare the 70 liter tank to breed with them and to start conditioning them.

They have now been happily swimming around in the larger tank and I was not planning on breeding yet until I had conditioned them to the best....

Yesterday I completely emptied the shrimp tank for a new re-scape so all plants were taken out as well as most of the shrimp ..today I go to feed the shrimp and low and behold I see a tiny little bright blue eye darting about at the top... what the $%^#$???    Have another look....more tiny little blue eyes swimming around...  then the penny drops... the furcatus!!!!   So they had bred without me even trying and by removing them to the larger tank the little ones could be born and grow in peace...I could cry when I think about the amount I probably lost due to emptying the tank the other day...  

The fry are tiny!  if you look reallllllly closely you can see two fry on the below picture.

But still a nice surprise...  I will 'intentionally' breed them soon and then it looks I am going to have to look for a new challenge ...  I am open to suggestions xxxx

Another piccy update of baby furcatus - now 6 weeks old