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As we are probably all well aware of the hitch hiking capabilities of our shrimp, I thought it was important to warn of another possible hitch hiker when moving plants about from different tanks....and its not snails. This afternoon I happened to be looking in my one dedicated cherry shrimp tank and was shocked to discover a small fish fry now apporimately 2mm in length. It is most likely a blue eye fry (pacific or spotted) and the only way it could have got into the tank was as an egg on some Hornwort either from the tank next door or the spotted blue eye/ native shrimp tank below. There is the very faint chance the fry is a rainbow fish but being a blue eye is the most likely. Considering the size of the fry and the fact that it has not been getting any fry foods only some tropical flakes and any sinking foods I put in for the shrimp to swarm over, I am guessing its lucky to have got to the size it now is. But it also makes me wonder if any brothers and sisters might have made the unexpected trip with it. I know I have not added weed to the tank for a number of weeks, in fact the last time I mucked around in the tank I removed a heap of weed. I will be showing my husband the little fry, and re-interating what I have told him previously " NEVER just throw excess plants/ weed from the tanks out, you never know when a fish might have laid eggs on it". For now I will leave the little fry in with the shrimp and once its big enough to identify which species of fish it is I will then put it back with its respective parents.