Meet my new roommates
Me: "What will happen to the guppies after this?" Greek demo guy: "You can... bring them home?"
Darn. He read my intentions. :P
Noting the questioning look, he added,"Yes, you can bring them home if you feel emotionally attached to them. It's ok."
So I've now got around 20 guppies in my empty tank (previously for my Betta fry). I say around 20, 'cos it's hard to count them when they're all frolicking around. I have only around 20 fish, since I didn't have anything bigger to contain them in and I didn't want to look greedy. The other demo dude told me to take all of them away if I could (I couldn't, of course, so Soph filled another two bagfuls and there were still many, many left), and asked if I wanted to keep the locusts too (some others were using them for the electroantennogram practical). I used to keep guppies when I was young... and those periods of guppy ownership were brief as they'd always die after a few days.
The males in the pic are those which we had used for our project - on male dominance and courtship behaviour. I've got those original 10, plus a few more, including a few pregnant females. One of them has an absolutely huge belly and is on the verge of exploding. I'm not really prepared for fry-rearing again, so if she feels like getting into some fun and offloading herself... ...
Oh, what fun. Souvenirs from Animal Behaviour. A little bit of something to distract us while we work on our project presentations for Friday...
2 Comments:
So now you more or less have a fish shop in ure house!! Did u get pregnant females?
Jac, you should have taken them ALL home, i am sure you could give them away. *hint hint* Bah now its too late!!!
Btw i still cant tell male from females (luckily only guppies!!). The guppy i am unsure about looks like no.5 but then again it also looked like one of the females in the tank with the same colouration.... why couldnt they be easier to sex!!
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