Status report: Fish babies

[naomi_jay]

So if you look closely at this somewhat blurred image, I'm pretty sure you'll make out one of the fish babies, either Chad or Tad. (I had to name them. The others all have names.) I've taken the bold step of leaving the fish unsupervised this weekend, since I'm at my parents' and Pip is in London, and I'm hoping both Chad and Tad will still be alive and well when I return. So far nobody's shown any inclination to eat them.



And here we see the furtive-looking parents (or potential parents). I'm pretty sure these two are responsible for the sudden appearence of Chad and Tad, as they spend a lot of time skulking around in the plants, out of sight, probably having deviant fish-sex. It's usually a good idea to have two female platys to every one male, otherwise the male harasses the females to death. If they were people, that kind of behaviour would be unacceptable. But when you're a fish, it's all good apparently.



My other fish are rightly disgusted by the whole sordid affair and refuse to get involved.