Normally, these are a few of the aquatic friends Lowden sees in his aquarium. But a few weeks ago, we went to the pet store and got a Balloon Belly Molly which looked something like this except fatter.
A few days later Parker noticed little flashes swimming around in the tank. Sure enough the mom must have been pregnant because she had four babies. One was eaten by another creature in Lowden's tank (not sure whether it was the frog, the other molly, the danios, or the long shot- one of the snails?) before I was able to figure out how to separate them. I bought a screen insert for the tank and now three of the babies are happily swimming around and getting bigger everyday. The sad news is the mom died from stress...we think. They weren't easy to photograph but here is one of them.
2 comments:
good job capturing the fishes on camera. that takes some skill!
How sad! Poor mamma fish.
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