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Today has been a very mixed day in the fish world. Unfortunatley the guppy who we have been worried about and who has been struggling on for the past few days gave up. Perhaps it’s best for her, perhaps people generally bring that to mind to make it easier. I’ve no idea what it was that killed her in the end, and have no way of telling really so probably will never know. The little tank that we had set up has been tidied away and put back in storage now.

Later on in the evening we witnessed a whole load more however, and noticed that another of the female guppies was skulking around the bottom right of the tank. On closer inspection we noticed a few babies loitering nearby. Then all of a sudden she gave birth to a couple more! It was incredible watching this. It was slightly macabre watching as well I must admit, as these mini mini baby fish were born (they kinda pop out folded double which i hadn’t expected tbh) and as soon as they were in the tank the platties were wooshing after them looking for dinner. In the end they almost seemed to be waiting for the next ones to be born so they could eat them! Shocking, but also why we bought some slightly larger fish, obviously the population control is working well.

An eventful evening all in.