My aquarium is quite the watery Peyton Place, if you know what I mean. It doesn’t look like the above picture anymore but you get the idea.
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The male Sailfin molly, Sam the Man, has sent his electricity to the cosmic pool, leaving his harem without a leader. I was trying to decide if I wanted to rehome him because I don’t need more mollies, but he made the decision for me. My one prayer is that the mature female who has been having all the babies did not store sperm, as they can do, for future use. Let the last babies be already born. I have one from the last batch, just eyes with fins right now but female like all the others born in my tank. Now I have 5 females, the Harlettes. That is quite enough.
Its interesting to watch the power shifts in the tank with the changes that have gone on recently. First, the big pleco, The Mermaid, was queen of the reef. She laid on the reef shelf that overlooks everything and the others left her alone because she was so big. I rehomed her and the red tailed shark took over that shelf and harassed everyone else.
The yoyo loaches went underground, seldom to be seen. I rehomed the shark and the bigger loach, Heckle, started coming out and took over the shelf.
He tends to follow the cory catfish, Leopold and Loeb, and tries to steal the algae wafers that they root out. Now, his friend loach, Jeckle, comes out too but she doesn’t bother anyone.
The new pleco, Gwennedd, is fitting right in but I think she will outgrow the tank this year. She is very pretty for a fish.
The other two plecos, Monstro and Figaro who are small and do their jobs of cleaning the tank mostly unseen. I know where they hang out and can find them just to check and make sure they are still with me.
That leaves the two black skirts, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They are very low key, survivors of the first wave of fish. They swim, eat, and poop. Good job if you can get it.
As they sing in “Swinging on a Star”
But then if that sort of life is what you wish
You may grow up to be a fish.
Be safe and be well.