Fingers crossed

A while ago I got myself a new aquarium so that my poor lonely goldfish, Mr Hubbles would have a nice home with a filter etc. We also got him a new goldfish friend, Fish 1 (named by Y!) and 2 little minnow friends (Lightening and Houdini).

All was well for a few weeks but then Mr Hubbles began to display some signs of illness, (which is ironic as he was living in a really rubbish tank before!), and we had to remove him from the tank. A few days later Fish 1 also began to get poorly and despite the purchase of a seperate tank and filter, neither of them survived.


Since then the minnows seem to have thrived. They are both happy and healthy (to my knowledge) and we have held off getting any additions until I am sure the tank is safe, when I intend to get some aquatic miniature frogs to join them.

However, this morning I thought Houdini seemed to be acting a little strange, though as he is a hider most of the time it is hard to tell. So, after feeding them their breakfast I sat down to watch them for a while, just to check. And what did I find...? A tiny, teeny, miniature, ghostly little minnow! A baby!! He is swimming around quite freely, and is perfect, although only about 4mm long and 1mm high!! We haven't named him as I'm aware that babies don't survive easily and I'm not prepared to take any special measures. Nature will do her thing and take her course and he will survive or not. That said he is still there this evening, and it is very exciting! So fingers crossed that the tiniest possible addition to our family might just survive!

Oh its small pleasures for me these days :-)