Monday, February 12, 2007

Ten for Ten

I really can't believe my first batch of baby fish are almost three weeks old (tomorrow), and that they're all still alive and doing fine. They're growing so well, and are so cute. Rather than little swimming fleas, or as they grew tadpoles, they now look like itty bitty fishies. They're still only about 1/4" long, but really look like little guppies. They haven't begun to show color yet though, or whether they're male or female--pretty tough to tell on fish anyway--with guppies they do develop a gonopodium, ahem, yeah that, but the most common tell-tale sign is exactly that, they're tail. The males develop long flowing super colorful tails and dorsal fins. The females get some color, but much much less as is typical of almost all animal species save man. The new babies should begin to color out in a couple of weeks and I'll post some pictures.

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