Fishtank tales

[avrelia]

I wrote here before that we got a fishtank with fishies in it. I gave them fancy names, P. was feeding them, D. was pointing at them and saying "mama", fishes lived and prospered. Guppies made many tiny guppies, mollies made many tiny mollies, and there our problems started.

We were faced with an ecological catastrophe in one fishtank - it couldn't create livable conditions for indefinitely increasing numbers of mollies and guppies. At first we had hopes for natural selection, but it didn't work - there was a lot of food and no predators, so nothing happened. Some fishies did die - but certainly not enough. So we got another fishtank with two pirahnas in it. They were tiny and kind of cute when P. brought them from a fish store. it was hard to believe that those really were the terrifying creatures, the choice evil pets of Evil Overlords. We let them swim with some guppies we didn't need, and for several months they coexisted more or less peacefully. And then, eventually the piranhas grew up bigger ate everybody they could. The problem with overpopulation was solved.

And then, one day, one piranha ate the other one.



Now I half-expect it will eat itself one day. Like that Uroboros snake.

Older female guppies and mollies died, in my opinion, tired from all the non-stop procreation. We have now teenage fishes and two new silver mollies, and several betas. I don't name them.

D. now calls all fish "M".