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Jul. 9th, 2005 10:14 amI forgot to mention, in my update post, that just before leaving Roger and Hunter's house, they offered us the four gouramis that had been in their bedroom. "Do you want these fish?" Why not, I guess; we have plenty of tank space since we hadn't yet gotten around to populating them. So a ginormous pickle jar was found and filled with water for them to ride home in. Four hours later, after retrieving Rosa from daddy's, we finally released them into the hexquarium. That's been just about a week ago.
Sometime earlier this week, Tammie mentions that it looked like the orange gouramis had been mating. Today, I am looking at the fish, and one of them does have a distinct bulge about her midsection. Of course, last night I introduced three angelfish into the same tank, so if we actually want to keep the babies we'll have to go get an isolation tank for the momma fish. Angelfish are notorious for eating fry.
Also, in other fish news, anonymous commenter appears to have been correct. After seeing the comment, I googled about tank-sharing with bettas, and it seems that any fish with long or fancy tails is not a good companion for a betta. Then I took a hard look at the fishes in my desktop tanklet. Sure enough, the fantail's fins had a number of ragged spots. Considering that they were perfect when I bought it three days ago, I determined that the betta had been nibbling on them. So I scrounged up a baggie and brought goldie home. Had to catch it with my bare hands, as I was sadly lacking in the net department, but that wasn't actually difficult. I put the goldfish into the upstairs fishquarium with the last remaining guppy--a black one. Black guppy is very aggressive, though; he was attacking all the other weaker guppies, and he's already seeming to go after goldie (who is at least three times his size). So goldie may end up going outside to live with the koi.
Sometime earlier this week, Tammie mentions that it looked like the orange gouramis had been mating. Today, I am looking at the fish, and one of them does have a distinct bulge about her midsection. Of course, last night I introduced three angelfish into the same tank, so if we actually want to keep the babies we'll have to go get an isolation tank for the momma fish. Angelfish are notorious for eating fry.
Also, in other fish news, anonymous commenter appears to have been correct. After seeing the comment, I googled about tank-sharing with bettas, and it seems that any fish with long or fancy tails is not a good companion for a betta. Then I took a hard look at the fishes in my desktop tanklet. Sure enough, the fantail's fins had a number of ragged spots. Considering that they were perfect when I bought it three days ago, I determined that the betta had been nibbling on them. So I scrounged up a baggie and brought goldie home. Had to catch it with my bare hands, as I was sadly lacking in the net department, but that wasn't actually difficult. I put the goldfish into the upstairs fishquarium with the last remaining guppy--a black one. Black guppy is very aggressive, though; he was attacking all the other weaker guppies, and he's already seeming to go after goldie (who is at least three times his size). So goldie may end up going outside to live with the koi.
