All the Fish, they Lived Through Christmas!

Unlike last year (link), all the fish that were alive stayed alive over Christmas. I wasn't mourning on Christmas morning trying to make happy when I only felt like crying. I'm still very sad that Mr. Blue isn't alive. I still miss him.

I see his traits in his son, Mr. White. But Mr. White doesn't seem to be very successful in wooing the ladies. Although he's very successful in herding the ladies to their respective corners of the tank and then being all alone down at the bottom and moving rocks around. Then when he herds the female that is in heat out, she successfully avoids him.

One of the white females got pretty beat up. Her tail fin, the pretty part, got eaten off and then one morning I came downstairs and saw someone (I'm not naming names, but he's the only male in the tank) had taken a chunk out of her between her dorsal and tail fin. I put my net in and scooped her into an isolation cell (still in the same tank), just like that. No fight or avoidance on her part, which tells me she was pretty beat up. She's doing better now, is eating and swimming around in the little cell. Whenever Mr. White gets near her, she goes to the opposite side of her little cell.

We'll see if they can figure out this breeding stuff.