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Just a complete puzzler. Did a water change on my daughter's 12g tank today and changed the filter media while I was at it.

Tank's Background:
Dry, bleach-cleaned tank
New, bagged dry (not live) black sand
Three pieces of bleached dry rock
*cycle*
One fish.

That's it.

Why is it puzzling? When I took the filter media out, I found.... wait for it... PODS.

I'm going to wait for somebody to explain that one.
 
Do you use the same hoses/pumps for water changes? Maybe there was a little water left in the pump or something from a previous water change on your main system?
 
Nope... on her tank (only) I use a 64oz Tupperware cup to remove/replace water since a change is only about 5 cups full.
 
I think the key is the rock if it has ever been in an aquarium or from the ocean. I don't know about the like cycle of pods, but if you look at brine shrimp they lay eggs that can be dormant, dry, bleached or abused any number of ways but can still hatch once they are put back into an appropriate environment.
 
Are you feeding frozen foods? Maybe eggs from frozen food some how managed to hatch. Rods food prob is loaded with pods
 
Dakota9;730427 wrote: Any store water put in the tank when you introduced the fish?
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Never never never.

Ripped Tide;730446 wrote: Are you feeding frozen foods? Maybe eggs from frozen food some how managed to hatch. Rods food prob is loaded with pods
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Pellets and frozen I make myself.
 
They were ate by the fish and not digested then thy hatched lol or they rode piggy back on the fish
 
SuperClown;730565 wrote: They were ate by the fish and not digested then thy hatched lol or they rode piggy back on the fish
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:offtopic: That is actually how Mesquite came to cover the Arizona landscape. Longhorn cattle in Texas ate the beans off the trees but couldn't digest them. They then were imported to Arizona and eventual did what cattle do. Since the beans were in a good fertilizer they sprouted and now cover the landscape. Every try to kill one? I had one sprout in my yard that was 6" tall. I would cut it and it would grow right back. I decided to pull it out. Took a Jeep in 4 wheel low to pull it out. It had 6 feet of root on it and it had broken off. No telling how much more was left in the ground. A week later it sprouted again. I decided that was a great place to have a Mesquite tree. LOL

Ok, now back on topic. :thumbs:
 
When acclimating your fish when you scooped him up to put it in the tank the pods got scooped up too

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JohnIII;730603 wrote: When acclimating your fish when you scooped him up to put it in the tank the pods got scooped up too

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I think I'd have spotted amphipods in the container, but I guess that is possible... Though I witnessed this fish getting caught and bagged, and the net never got close to rocks or glass (and you don't see pods swimming in open water very much). In fact, there was no sand or LR in the tank as it was a breeding tank.
 
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