So it turns out that our Molly fish was pregnant. And to my surprise we woke up one morning to three baby fish, or as Mike says "baby gold fish!" It has brought new excitement to the previously forgotten fish tank. The kids love to be held up to try to find the little babies. They are hard to find too. Heck, I like to stare at the tank and find them too. (I found myself staring at them for almost a hour late one night with Abbey sleeping in her bed!) It has also made it fun to help feed them with crushed food and a toothpick. The only problem... I've read that Molly fish can have more babies after their first batch, weeks in between. And they can have more than 30 babies at one time! Oh, and the mother fish are known to eat the babies when they are really small. Talk about anxiety! I'm okay with 3... 30?!... not so much! On a side note, the mother gives birth to live fish, not eggs. Thats kind of cool, maybe I will get to see it since she seems to be getting fat again which means she probably will be having more soon... anyone want some baby fish?
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No dad needed?
No dad needed?
the mother carries the eggs and they can be fertilized at different times back when she was with the males at the store... then they grow and she gives birth to them depending on when they were fertilized!
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