New catfish

Well apparently my fish keeping skills are not too bad, as I think we now have 9 baby catfish – at least that’s as many as I’ve seen at any given time.  Could be more, I suppose.

 

They’re supposed to be hard to breed, all I do is keep the water about right and feed ‘em.  I did notice the larger albino spending a lot of time in a cave before, it might have been the female spawning, but had actually though the large one was the male.  Might just be older.

 

The fry spent the last week right up near the top of the tank, but just this morning I noticed they’re now down on the gravel with the adults, scrounging for solid fool.  They’re about 1cm long, and 2/3^rds of that is tail.  I am a bit worried about them going near the filter intake, but what happens will happen I suppose – can’t do much about it short of putting them into a nursery tank, and I’d never catch the little buggers, they can move like you would not believe.  Nothing in there is having a go at them, luckily – the clown loaches and the dwarf gourami are definitely omnivorous meat eaters, but they are kept well fed so they don’t seem interested.

 

Will post a pic later, I’ll have to get my tripod set up first.  I need a shirtload of zoom to get a look at the little guys, which means too much shake for handheld.