Really?

One of my pet peeves is people who are misinformed or not informed at all. Sometimes they can't help it, they're just idiots. There's no nicer way to put it. An even bigger pet peeve is people who know (or should know) the information and fail to tell the misinformed. I mean, what the heck?!

So Tom and I went to Petsmart Saturday to look around. This happens pretty regularly. :) Anywho. I eavesdropped on a conversation between a customer and a Petsmart employee in the fish section. They just so happened to be by the live bearer tanks I was looking at. The old woman (customer) wanted a pleco. And 3 black mollies. And 3 dalmatian mollies. OK, sounds like a reasonable days purchase for me and my 55 gallon tank. Here's where things go sour. Very few Petsmart employees can sex the fish in their store. This one (a girl) could not or just did not. My guess is on the latter. She sent the woman home with at least 4 male mollies. Bad news for the 1-2 females not to mention male dominance issues. Poor girls. :( AND failed to remind the woman that the pleco can reach 18 inches. No wait! It gets worse. The woman only has a 10 gallon tank! AND it already has neon tetras and platies in it! Where are these new fish going to live lady?! Poor things don't have a chance.

A Tale of Two Guppies...

...ok, make that four. I mean, six. No wait, ten. Yes, ten. For now...

10 guppies. I bought 4 and got a freebie baby. A week and a half later, 10. The gold female had hers sometime between last Thursday and Saturday. I found the two by accident while cleaning the tank on Saturday. Cute little things! And then on Tuesday I found 3 from the Black Moscow female. I possibly found number 4 last night. It may have been a duplicate counting as they move so fast!
The adults are probably going into the main tank this weekend to cut back on all of the excess babies. Plenty of hunger mouths in there to keep that population under control. It's a fish eat fish world out there!

New Fish!

Hooray! I got new fish today! I love new fish... But first, here are the platies that I got last month. Welcome Thing 1 and Thing 2!

Until Thing 2's tail completely heals, I can tell them apart. T2 is on the right with the pointed tail, darn fin rot!

Made another trip out to The Fish Place. I love it there, thanks Renee! I left with a pair of Blue Moscow guppies and Gold Pastel guppies. I got a free pastel baby out of it too! Heck yeah! Tom bought me my fish for a vacation present. Too cute! Check 'em out!

I might be going to Petsmart this week fora couple more male guppies. They have some pretty turquoise ones. Today I saw one the hada grayish purple body and a pink speckled tail! Beautiful. i need him. Maybe tomorrow.

Overview

Let's recap! Molly is no more... :( Took 2 days for her to go. Then the little sucker hid herself in the back corner, had to dig her out.

Been busy so no creative juices to get those narratives going. Someday...

Big fat mama platy had babies the other day. Well, I'm assuming she did. Really fat one day, not so fat the next. you do the math. I haven't found any... Those danios are crazy little eaters!

T1 & T2 made their way into the main tank on Wednesday. all of the other platies came to check them out. It was so cool to see all of them together. Hasn't happened again since... T1's babies are doing well. I can see them eat now. So cool!

Going to the Fish Place this weekend for some guppies. I plan on breeding for a bit then just letting them do their thing in the big tank.

Went thru some pictures yesterday. I'll put them up soon!