Just wanted to let you know that our fish had babies!  How exciting, huh?  There are four or five; they are very small and swim fast, so they’re hard to count.  I just noticed them yesterday while looking for our newly acquired ghost shrimp.  A fun 33 cents that one is.

We have had goldfish for a while now.  I guess it seems like a while, but it’s only been 10 months.  We started out with a fancy goldfish and a white one with an “orange hat”.  One of them died, so we picked out two more: a gray one with bulgy eyes and another goldfish.   SM fed them a whole can of fish food once, but I saved them from the slime.  After a little while, one died, and then the other two did.  My theory on this is that one of the cheap ones had an illness and the other two got it.  I am no veterinarian nor a fish expert, but they died and I come up with reasons that sound plausible to myself and to little kids.

We were off the fish for a while, but were wont to browse the pet store just to have something to do.  One day, I decided we needed some more fish and thought the guppies were small and varietous, so we got four boys.  A yellow, a teal and two with black spots on their tails.  The teal one disappeared one day and was never seen again.  Not even after fish tank quarantine in the garage.  Not even after a thorough tank cleaning.

So then there were three.

Last month, after another jaunt to the pet store, I decided we could do with two more guppies.  This time I got two females.  And as life is one to do, it goes on.  The birds and the bees and all that jazz.  I just thought it would take a little longer!

I don’t know which one was pregnant, or if she was pregnant when we brought her home, but here we are.  I just learned that the babies are called fries and a guppy gives birth to live fries.  That is interesting, no?  I wish I could have seen this.  Maybe I need to do more fish-tank-gazing.  Also, it’s usually around an average of 30 fries… so I guess the rest of them are hiding somewhere.  There is some more info here, more than I have time to look at right now, but is certainly interesting.

We literally have a school of fish!  The kids are excited and so am I.  I just hope I can take care of the new class.