Maybe you thought that I didn't have any children. Well, let me tell you my secret .... I have had babies since last summer. Do you want to see them?
Actually I am a grandmother. The big fat pink fish is a baby from last year. The other pink fish are her brothers. She's pregnant but she's been like that for a while --- hmmm, I wonder when I will have more pink babies?
The blue one and black one are male guppies. Sadly the female died earlier this week. I think she was a bit tired out because of all the babies she gave me. You can see five 'children' and nine 'babies' who are younger brothers and sisters. The babies seem to be mostly black, but the some of the children are starting to get beautiful blue and yellow tails. Mummy fish was blue/black/silver and I'm not sure which male is the daddy. Maybe both???
If you look closely you can also find two catfish on the bottom of the tank. And of course you can see one of the two shrimp 'flying' around. It took me ages of waiting to take that video! The shrimp do all kinds of interesting things. It is a bit disgusting but they also shed their shells every few weeks. The first time I thought it was a dead shrimp body but it was just the shell. Nowadays I find it difficult to eat shrimps ...
From February 13th, residents of Tsukuba can change their car number plates from 'Tsuchiura' area to 'Tsukuba'. I'm not sure why but many people think 土浦 is a bit country bumpkin-ish and rather uncool. As for me, I'm happy that Tsukuba is written in hiragana characters that are really easy to write!
