We have Baby Fish!!!

(Our 3 Baby Fish!)
(Daddy in the nursery tank)
So after the zoo field trip in the evening on Friday Justin (my Hubby) thought he saw baby fish in Daddy Cardinal's mouth. And like seeing the eggs we question 'did I really see that or do I want to see so am I seeing thing?' What a fine line when you are staring into a fish tank at a fish's mouth hoping he opens it enough to see something inside!!!

Saturday, Day 9 of owning him, we decided we were going to try and move him from the big tank to the nursery, not easy!!! We tried chasing him around the tank with nets, he was very fast.... coming at him from both sides, he just dived into the liverock.... we really didn't want to stress him out since he was carrying precious cargo! Justin had to start stacking liverock (carefully placing corals safely) out of the way till we found the rock he was hiding in and it was a nice hiding spot!!! We put the net up to the rock and then shook him out! YES WE GOT HIM!!! Took Blue Boy out of the nursery, he did his job staying alive =) And put in Daddy Cardinal in! Then Hubby had the hard work of putting the tank back together, he decided to make a mountain with the liverock, hahaha it's pretty funny will have to post a pix of it!

Sunday, Day 10, We did SEE BABIES in his Mouth!! They were darting to the open of the mouth than back were we could not see them but they were there no questioning it we both saw them!!! We thought that we would have a couple more days till he would spit them out....

Monday, we have had him for 11 Days!!! Hubby rush me downstairs Monday morning as I was getting everyone ready for school to show me BABY FISH!!!! Since he went to bed that night at like 1 in the morning and the babies were still in Daddy's mouth it must have happened in the wee hours of the early morning on Monday! Justin was worried about Dad chasing on of the babies around so he quickly scooped him out and put him back into the big tank. As we counted 1... 2... 3... I couldn't help being a little disappointed 3 babies! I was thinking 20'ish. With the survival rate not going in there favor I was hoping for a bunch so that we would have some hopefully make it all the way! Why do we have only 3? Well Dad how has not had a bit to eat in weeks could have been really hungry and... or we lost some when we moved him over... or could have even lost some eggs before we got him since he was transported into the fish store with them and then to our house... or maybe there just 3! Who knows!?! So now it is all about raising sea monkeys (brine shrimp) from eggs to feed to them several times a day!