If you're downrange of this lot, I'd guess your day is going badly.

Cowboy

A tough old cowboy from south Texas counseled his grandson that if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gun powder on his oatmeal every morning. The grandson did this religiously to the age of 103 when he died. He left behind 14 children, 30 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren, 25 great-great-grandchildren, and a 15-foot crater where the crematorium used to be. Sorta brings a tear to your eye, don't it?

 

Catfish photos

A couple of catfish photos.

Mum is in the second one, she's about 4cm long.  There's a blurred view of one of the albinos at the left of the first pic.

That's a piece of zucchini they are disassembling.  They eat the skin off first, then the flesh.  They get a piece of zucchini about 8cm long, boiled, split in half lengthwise, and all the pith and seeds scooped out.  4 catfish will completely eat that in 36 hours.

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.

Hey! I work there!

Dinner :P

Nice bit of olive oil and pepper and into the fridge for a little marinate...

Pretty amazing