settling in

Well, the Swimmers have been in their breeding net for about a day and a half now (not that I, you know, keep super-close tabs on them or anything. . .) and they seem to be enjoying it. For those of you unfamiliar with the volumes of information available on the always-wise interwebs, a breeding net is basically a little box-shaped net you put in the main aquarium so that big fish (like, I dunno, Maria and Captain Von Trapp?) don't eat the little fish, aka, their own children. Because some people are not huge fans of Lifetime / Sci-Fi Channel movie mashups about parental cannibalism and treks over the Alps.*

How this looks to us land-dwellers:



Annnnnnd here is the best photo I have been able to get through the net at the fish in their new environment. I should probably mention that the collection of green gravel-type stuff at the bottom of the net is ground-up algae disks, which smell to high heaven, but which I am assured will help the Swimmers grow strong and, you know, fish-like. Coupled with the tropical flakes I grind up for them and the occassional freeze-dried brine shrimp I also grind for them, they basically eat better than I do. (I just ate a Tootsie Roll pop and pretended it was a legitimate snack, people.)



I also tried to do a fancy close-up so you could see just one. . . to limited success. A friend of mine pointed out they look a bit like, well, sperm. Which begs the question: how is she so well-versed at the general apperance of said entities? HmmmMMMM?

Okay. Yeah. They look like sperm. But someday they will be real fishes! Eye on the ball here, people.

And finally, because my obsession with the new babies is already frightening even to myself, I leave you with a video of them in their tank so you can see how bizarre they seem to be in action. And then I am done for the night, for reals, because I have to read for class.**

Enjoy! I will try to have more when I have time to post and/or if the fish figure out that little goat puppet show, which is easily the creepiest/best thing in a movie ever.

Stephanie

* Yes, I know Sci Fi network changed their logo to SyFy. I am not dignifying their willful misspelling with a response.***

** The real world is so, so inconsiderate of my absurd home life. You cannot imagine.

*** Yes, I checked to make sure I spelled "misspelling" correctly. Don't judge me.