I think I have baby firefish. What do I do?

[jmg416]

This morning when the lights in my tank were turned on, my pair of firefish emerged from their usual sleeping spot. With them came a ton of miniscule objects that were moving on their own. I'm assuming they had babies. (I could be wrong). I turned the lights back off. But I don't know what other steps can be taken to help with survival, or if I should even bother at all.
I don't have any thing to seperate them into with in the tank, and the store doesn't open for another 3 hours.

 

[murph]

Not much you can do. Excellent food source for any other fish in the system though.

 

[wax32]

Well, at least you know you have a matched pair.

They will spawn often. Like murph said, great food source for your other fish/corals.

 

[swlover]

Can you take pics of them? I'd like to see them :cheer:

 

[jmg416]

I managed to get about 12 of them out of the tank. I didn't have an alternate tank set up so I brought them to my LFS. They cleared out a tank for them. I wish i had thought of netting them out, I could have grabbed a bunch more. I'm curious to see how many survive.

 

[rara12]

for like 30-40 bucks u can buy a little 5-10 gallon tank to put them in till they get bigger. To skip cycling buy saltwater. It worked when i had babyfish. (had a pair of hihats that had babies!!!) so cute

 

[coachklm]

many people have small spare tanks around for these types of cases also for pulling out things to identify i have a 10g (10$) and a 2.5g (5$) these tanks can also be uused for aclimation procedures and hospital tanks. just a thought.