SWEET BABIES

My mother and I settled on fancy angelfish for my graduation gift. Since mine are getting really grouchy and rowdy, this is fine. They were chasing mollies around! That is uncool. No, I'm going to return them to the fish farm and get some fancy ones. I was told that I could mingle quarter-size angels in with my guys, too, since they're not full-grown. I could also do that! But maybe I just want to get rid of mine. There is no room in my tank for mean fish.

Today I look over and notice that there is some nastiness on the filter intake.

"Ugh, God! Fish! Why is there always some grossness-- SWEET BABIES!"

( no, seriously. There were eggs )

And all I could hear in my head was Roz Ryan/Cake.

Unbeknownst to me, the blue and the silver pair-bonded and that's why they were chasing everyone around (nothing explains the other angel's fighting, except maybe feeling left out). On... the filter intake tube. You know, right above the thing that sucks up particulate much bigger than baby fish. Which means if any of the eggs are fertile I'm going to have to take the intake apart, put the tube elsewhere, and put panty hose over the grill.

Well that was unexpected. Since the angels are way too small to be spawning (as far as I know, they're definitely not full grown, the female is about 1.75 inches from nose to peduncle) and I wasn't doing any of that optimum environment stuff. I don't really expect any fry from this endeavor, but... I can't break up a pair. That's awful.

It's like they knew I wanted to replace them with some pinoy wide-fins and shacked up for the benefits. ( Lucky for them they're good looking fish. )