Big news again, people! Today there are new babies in the aquarium. First I counted 12, then 16, and finally 18! They're so little and so fast that it's tough to count them.
This batch has white ones, speckled ones, and black ones.
The other babies, which are now such old news, are all still alive and doing very well: 7 black ones and 1 white one.
In the photo, you can see Big Blackie, three of the babies from last month, and one teeny dark baby above Big Blackie's tail, and one teeny white baby under Big Blackie's chin, just in the tips of that plant.
Additional aquarium news: we lost the snail. Poor guy: one day his shell was really badly cracked, and part of it had fallen off. Maybe he climbed up to the top, got spooked by a fish, and let go, falling to his eventual doom. He lived for several days with his damaged shell, and then one day the Algae Eater, who we call "Algae Eater" was cleaning up the remains. His shell remains in the tank as a warning to all other snails to follow.
Speaking of snails, we have what might
[REAL-TIME INTERRUPTION: JASON JUST CALLED TO ME, "I DON'T SEE ANY BABIES!" I HAD TO GO DOWNSTAIRS AND POINT THEM OUT TO HIM. 10-20 BABIES!]
be about 50 or 100,000 baby snails crawling and wriggling around. It's an infestation. I mean, we can use the clean-up help, what with our last wanted snail being dead. But those little guys multiply like crazy, and then crawl around everywhere like they own the place, and make it look...snail-infested. Jason smushes them whenever they climb high enough on the walls for him to reach them.
That's all the news from the aquarium today.
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