I have baby fish in my aquarium this morning!

I counted 20 but there are probably more.

I’m pretty sure they’re balloon mollies because some of them are multicolored, but they’re so tiny I won’t be sure until they’re a little bigger.

I am soooo excited!

I took some pictures but because the water is moving/circulating, the images didn’t come out terribly sharp. I took a 30-second video, but it’s so large a file, I don’t think I can post it here or on Facebook but I’ll try because the images in that one are a lot better.

They’re well hidden in the floating foliage.

I spotted them because I was trying to anchor all the floating foliage (which isn’t supposed to be floating) and as soon as I did that, I saw all these babies up at the top of the tank wondering where their hiding place went, so I quickly returned the foliage to the top of the tank, you may be sure.

I’m a fish dad!  

In Other News

I worked for an hour this morning putting “ugly gravel” into the goat shed.  Got it about 1/5 finished, I think.  The gravel is wet and very heavy, and since it’s not raining this morning (in between two very rainy storm systems), I thought I’d better get underway.  The goats got to be loose in the back yard the whole time, so they had fun. Did I have fun, too?  As much as a person can have loading gravel into a wheelbarrow, wheeling it forty feet, dumping it, and doing it again and again and again for 60 minutes.  But because I was doing it for my critters, I really didn’t mind. It’s what I do to keep my animals well, dry, high, and healthy.

If I get a second wind, I’ll probably give it another go for an hour later today. It’s supposed to stay dry pretty much all morning.

Update:  Just spent another half hour taking 100 shovels full of gravel to the goat shed.  That’s enough for today. I think the gravel pile is about 1/3 gone now. Lots of gravel for what I need.