When I told Ashlynn that her fish (that lives at my house) had babies, she whooped for joy and started chanting, "I'm a grandma! I'm a grandma!"
So I thought it only fitting that I would post photos of her grand"children". She has not had the pleasure of meeting them yet...
To give you an idea of how small the fish are (if you've even been able to find them in the photo...) the blue flattish marble is about as big around as a nickel. The lighter colored tiny things are pastel gravel bits that I haven't been able to clean up yet. The fish are the mostly eyeball looking whitish, gray things. They were born on 11/8 and are from a Mollie, which is a livebearer.
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Thats pretty funny! At first glance I was sure it was about how she was mothering all of those boys.
Our black mollie 'shrek' had 5 'shreklets' the day after we brought her home...then she swam headfirst into the wall of the tank (at high speed), convulsed a few times, and floated to the top. apparently motherhood was too challenging for her.
3 of the shreklets died in the filter, but 2 grew, and were re-named 'donkey' and 'fiona' because, you know, the 4yo was naming them. :)
One black shreklet lived a long life, and apparently got it on with a subsequent white lyre mollie, because one day there were two more babies--one brown, one white... we named them salt and pepper.
Pepper lived over a year, and would follow W's finger up and down the front of the tank. Pepper is the one fish I've ever known of who actually had a relationship with his owner!
I'm glad Ashlynn thinks being a Grama is pretty good. That means Nana and I are doing something right!
Caroline, I actually teased her that she was going to have to start buying coats and shoes for all of them like you and my mom do. She wasn't too keen on that idea...
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