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Memorable quote of the morning, from Paidhi Girl:

"Mom, there's a weird, tiny little fish-like thing in the tank!"

("I saw one of those yesterday," Paidhi Boy said a few minutes later. "A fish ate it.")

We've found two so far, and they've been removed to safety. We're not sure just who's popping them out, there are two platys. Both are now in breeding traps. We shall see.

I've never had baby fish before, I'm not sure just how this is going to go.

Date: 2007-09-24 10:33 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chomiji

Ah yes, the baby fish adventure ... guppies, of course, are notorious for it (hence Ari II's easy time with them in Cyteen).

We (my late father and I) actually tried to do this on purpose once, with 2 pairs of Ramirezi, which actually take care of their babies. But nothing came of it, sadly.

Date: 2007-09-24 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ann-leckie.livejournal.com
Yeah, I've avoided guppies for my entire fish-caring career for exactly that reason.

This is kind of exciting, though. We've now got four babies, and one more that Paidhi Girl has spotted but failed to catch makes five. They're now in a cheapie small tank in the basement (no cats to be tempted to go fishing) and I have no idea what will happen next.

What are we going to do if they all grow up? What are the chances that they'll all grow up, if we've got them in a babies-only tank? I have no idea.

(Also, I've heard of the cichlids that take care of their babies! Though I didn't know they had that name, and the extra Cherryh link is making me smile a bit.)

Date: 2007-09-25 04:26 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] chomiji

Yeah, I was thinking about that as I typed it! When I was a kid, I never thought about the connection with the surname, because we always pronounced it "ram-uh-REE-zye," and when you went to buy them at a shop, the tank labels always just said "Rams." I didn't go "Oh - they were named after someone named Ramirez" until a few years ago when I was trying to find a picture of one on the Intarwebs and had to figure out how it was actually spelled.

You need something little tiny on which to feed them, usually. If they are vegan fish   ;-)   thay can eat algae off the tank sides, but you might need to get special baby fish food otherwise. And they eat teeny teeny amounts, so you have to be careful not to foul the tank they're in with excess food.

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