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Help! Fish aquatic expert!?

Last week I saw these little black baby fish or whatever it is in my tank and so I set up some java moss so they could hide. They are weird and they look like fish but they are not getting bigger and they hang on to the wall sometimes. I need to know if maybe they are little fish fry from my siamese algae flying fox or if they are some kind of parasite. I can describe how they look and they are tiny and their color is black and they are shaped like a little sucking fish. They still havent grown any bigger and its been two weeks. I have no idea i searched all over on the internet and I still cant find a picture of flying fox fry so that i know how they look so now im worried!! Please if anybody knows what im talking about comment asap thank you for ur time reading this!!! Thanks for all your information but I dont have a good camera to take a good picture of something so tiny! Well whatever it is my fish are doing fine so far and I hope its just baby fish because thats how they look like and I do have 2 siamese flying fox so it could possibly be theirs. Thanks alot for everything.

Public Comments

1. Good evening, if possible, could you post a picture of these little guys? It could be a number of things. Thanks!! Best regards, billcollins531
2. I agree with the person above, post a pic, which is easy and then we can help for sure. it could possibly save your other fish too.
3. Flying fox are egglayers, so you would have had to have 2 fish (male and female) to lay eggs, then have had the eggs and fry escape from being eaten by the adults. So I don't think these are fry. Are they flat on the glass and gravel? Possibly they're planaria: http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/science/biological_sciences/lab11/images/Planaria-Live.jpg in which case you should be able to make out the two eyespots. Planairia typically live in the gravel and only come out at night, so if this is what you;re seeing and they're out during the day, you probably have a lot more you're not seeing. When their population reached that level, it's a sign that maybe you need a little more attention to cleaning (vacuuming) down into the gravel - if there wasn't a readily available source of food for them, they wouldn't be multiplying very quickly. Some planaria produce mild toxins in their skin, and this keeps fish from eating them, so you shouldn't rely of the fish to remove them, either.