Announcing the arrival of......

I was sitting in front of our fish tank feeding our fish yesterday and noticed that our now slightly big baby (the only one from 11 who survived) was hanging around in one particular plant. Next minute this tiny little thing with big black eyes popped up in front of him! As I looked around another one joined them, then another, and another!! We have new baby fish!! There are 7 of them in all, and I have a feeling the mumma was giving birth I was sitting there as one of the platys was acting all weird. This time, to see if we can get a slightly higher percentage of babies to make it we've taken the babies out of the tank and put them in a container sitting in the top of the tank. It's hard to see exactly how tiny these things are from the pictures but they're about 7mm long at the moment. Unfortunately our tank really can't support any more fish, especially those the size of the platys, so we'll have to give them away (if they survive).

This is the proud mumma (I think!)... hard to tell when both of the platys look exactly the same!

This is the big brother... well, can't really tell if it's big brother or sista, but I'm calling it brother for the moment. This guy was from the last batch of babies born in the tank. Hard to tell it's size, but the fish at the top of the photo is a neon tetra which is only about 2cm long, if that!

Uncle Rocky, the catfish, doesn't really know what to think of this whole situation. The worrying this is that while we were away on holiday and the last lot of babies were around he suddenly started getting really fat, and the babies started to disappear at a rapid rate. It may just be that he was comfort eating after the loss of the babies.... but me thinks not!

This is one of the new additions to the tank- meet Frank the puffer fish! He's one of 2 puffer fish that we got from the markets on the weekend. Not the greatest photo of him, but since they are so shy at the moment it's hard to get good shots. They're getting much better now though and starting to participate in feeding time... even if the platys do get a little bit obnoxious when there are worms involved.