Baby fish in filter!?!?!?

[Tired]

Whether or not it's natural, it's reasonable to see cute baby fish and feel sad that they'll be eaten. Nothing wrong with wanting to just have males to avoid that.

 

[michaelabellz]

I guess at the beginning, but she don't mention to have mandarin (I ask if it's come as a hitchhiker), but also she don't add anything recently, also the mandarin fish is bottom fish (very unusual to go up and in the overflow box, also they are usually picky and what food is going to eat there?

I think the same, had many during the years of FW tanks and it look like them

Yes I only have mollies and clownfish. I ended up finding 2 more babies around the tank and now that I’m getting better looks at them they do look like

I was like you, in a moment I end up with 5+ smaller tanks to can keep newborn and the smaller fish (from different stages and growth) uneaten and to have them safe but got too busy with maintaining all properly and the lack of time told me "you have to follow the circle of life"and I just left them on them own, reduce all to the main tank and stop separating them. Honestly it's completely normal because in no-time you will enter with huge number of mollies and that can put you in a trouble with the feeding and keeping stable water parameters.

i understand that later on, but right now I have the time, and it is only 3 babies. And If I can help them than I will.

 

[SHNICI]

Yes I only have mollies and clownfish. I ended up finding 2 more babies around the tank and now that I’m getting better looks at them they do look like

i understand that later on, but right now I have the time, and it is only 3 babies. And If I can help them than I will.

or if you can, leave them on them own, that way they will grow up stronger if they make it
You know how is in the nature, the strongest survive.
Or catch them and put them in preader container. But have on mind, in no time they will owercrow your tak, and the mollies can do really much mess and dirt.

 

[Tired]

I don't think a baby fish that's left to fend for itself will necessarily do any better than one that's put in its own container and fed. If there's any difference, it would probably do worse, since it doesn't have food and protection. And canister filters are not hospitable environments.

This isn't nature. In nature, fish don't get treatment for disease or wounds, protection from predators, or any attempts to make sure they get enough food. We want to replicate some aspects of nature in our tanks, but survival of the fittest isn't necessarily one of those. It's not like we're training them for release into the wild. Or like fish need to be trained how to exist.