@jaki01 I was breeding fish in my house and had fish tanks all over, I had 6 in mine and my wifes bedroom, while I was breeding my own strain of guppies I bought some plants from eBay but they took weeks to get to me. Once they got to me I gave them a wash and popped them into my fish tanks to give the fry some good hiding spaces.
I noticed after a week or so that the number of guppies was getting less, so I started doing more water changes.
But they kept disappearing and I didn't know why.
One sunday morning, I was laid in bed just opening my eyes when I looked and there was this massive dragonfly in front of my face, I am not normally scared of insects but this took me of guard, I thought that at the time I had an alien in my bedroom as I was still disoriented from waking up.
It wasn't until I contacted the seller of the plants who then told me that they had been imported and that some of the plants contained dragonfly eggs.
He asked if I was missing fish, I said yes and he gave me a refund, I then found about 6 dragonflys dead around my house.
But they are not nearly as pretty as the one you have there.
Sorry for the essay :D
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Do you think (or even observed) that the larvae of the dragon flies were eating the small fishes?
Well this was the thing, I got a refund because the seller had put that it came from a personal tank that was quarantined, and it was already in the UK, he even said that he had been growing the plant himself.
I washed it before putting it in my tank as well as I didn't want to contaminate my tank with his water parameters which should have removed any eggs that might have been on there.
It was a lesson learned, and next time I buy some plants for a fish tank it will be from a garden centre as I can't afford to lose fishes like that, I managed to get a red guppy with a shiny blue tale, it had took me 6 generations of breeding to get to that stage and they were big and healthy.
The ones that were left I sold at our fish auction and they fetched £15 for 3 fish, People even asked me for more, but I moved on to swordtails and was trying to get a different strain of them going. :D