On baby fish – part 4

(April 2014) One month old! If fish were interested in celebrating anything, they could have celebrated having lived for a whole month. All except 3 anyway. Since they don’t much care for anything besides swimming, looking cute and eating, we had to celebrate for them. We (DB, his folks and I) went to an Indian […]

On baby fish – part 3

(Late March 2014) At 3 1/2 weeks old, baby fish are still really really small, as in, small enough to be barely measured in millimetres.. They are also incredibly fast swimmers. Adult discus fish can swim fast but don’t very often, they can spend hours practically not moving. The babies didn’t spend 3 seconds not […]

On baby fish – part 2

(Late March 2014, additions September 2015) As the fish grew bigger and bigger, their parents grew more and more tired of being their only source of food/nutritional secrete*. We read about baby fish online, we asked the staff at fish shops, we phoned a professional fish breeder. We came to the conclusion that it was […]