I didn’t know they could lay eggs, and it’s absolutely fascinating behavior to watch! I’m so used to guppies and platies who eat their baby’s that’s it’s refreshing to see parents protecting eggs. I thought they were both males, guess I was wrong. I’ve read that the males are infertile, but have also seen more recent reports that some males are able to reproduce. I don’t know, either way, it will be an exciting thing to watch and see what happens.
I have a video of it here http://tennessee-mom.com/media/play.php?vid=105 too.
Finally got around to making a new scrapbook page. I used May’s kit “Take Flight” from Songbird Avenue, and the template is based off Rachael Giallongo’s “Trendy” from The Digichick .
There is a pet shop that we drive by in Donelson, and I’ve always wanted to stop in to see what kind of fish they had. So I loaded up the kids and after DD got her allergy shots we went there. The first thing that hits you when you walk in is the smell. A funky mixture of cigarettes, old fish tank water, and dogs. And there on the floor, on a diarrhea stained newspaper, were puppies that barely lifted their head when we walked in. Their food bowl contained dry dog food that at one time had been watered down, but was now hard and crusty on top. It was covered in fly’s. The puppies were on old stained newspaper, and the one that did get up to see us was stepping in little puddles of dog diarrhea.
A crusty middle age woman came from the back and croaked “Can I help you with somethin’?”. She glared at us, obviously annoyed that we werent there to buy anything. There were smelly rodent cages, and a ton of birds, and even though the bird cages looked clean, I didn’t see any toys for the birds. The shelves, floors, and items were covered in a thick layer of dirt/dust. There was one kitten there, who she shoved into a cage on the floor and he just started howling and crying to get out. “You can’t come out because you’ve been bad” she told the kitten.
I got us out of there as fast as I could. It was horrible. I poured hand sanitizer on all of us and left. I wondered how to make a complaint and who to complain to.