I'm A Grandma... Again...

My husband has a hobby. We have 4 fish tanks in our living room. They are awesome. He does a really great job with them.

Now... I bet you're wondering about the being a Grandma part. Well... Rich raises guppies. Guppies are "live bearers". He is getting so good at looking at a pregnant female guppy that he can tell when they need to go into one of the breeder boxes. Usually within a couple days of being in the box... she has babies. Rich does tons of research on the internet to learn all he can about this process. It is actually very interesting... and it keeps him occupied and from going absolutely nuts being home all the time.


We went to the pet store in town today. Rich came out with one fish. I was very proud of him. He came out beaming like a little kid that just found a really cool prize at the bottom of the cereal box. He bought a pregnant female. She was pretty huge and bustin' at the gills. You can tell the pregnant ones because at the back end of their bellies right before their tale... it gets really dark in color.

He was excited. He came home and floated the bag with the fish in it in one of our tanks (to get the water temperatures adjusted)... he just went over to get ready to put the guppy in a breeder box... and realized that the bag that the fish was in... had just become a maternity ward!

Yes... that's right... we had some premature labor... resulting in 7 baby guppies swimming around in the bag with thier mom! She is not done yet. She will have more. Rich woke up one morning to another instance when there were about 40 babies in the lower section of his breeder box.

Can't beat that though... 8 fish (so far) for the price of one! What a bargain hunter! Time to start knitting little fishy booties!