Fish Update - New Tank and Another Pregnant Fish!

Hey! So, a lot has happened with the fish since I last posted. First up, our baby is pregnant. Yup. Filthy, insectrial Balloon Mollies. As I write this, she is due to have her babies any time now.

The orange one is the pregnant one. As you can see, the two males will not leave her alone. I read somewhere on the internet that they try and force babies out so they can eat them (which I hope is not true) but kind of makes sense. Nature -.-

Here's my favourite baby. The one that we didn't think would live and is much smaller than all of the others. He swims kind of like a dolphin and stays with his Mum which is really sweet.

 See what I mean? Dolphin baby!

This one wouldn't leave her alone. I'm afraid to say that after having him in the new tank for a few days we had to make the decision of taking him to an aquarium. Eventually he made the pregnant fish really sore behind, and he wouldn't stop chasing her unlike the other one. It's sad because he was born into our tank but the pregnant fish wouldn't have survived otherwise.

 He always looked really angry too, see his fin?

As for the tank, we upgraded our 30L Biorb (which is just a brand of tank) to a 60L Biorb as we went to Pets At Home and the lady said that once they grow bigger they will need under 10 litres per fish. Also, since our little one is having babies we thought it best to buy a new tank. Luckily we got it on Ebay for around £55 with the gravel - the tank brand new is around the £200 mark. Here's the process...

 I started messing around with things on fotor - sorry not sorry.

 I think this one looks kinda eerie and I like it :3

The next three pictures are of the remaining water in the old tank when Mom dragged up all of the muck from the bottom of it that was caught in the gravel. Yuck.

The tank now looks a lot clearer that what it does in these pictures. The fish are very content with their new environment and swim between the rocks and plants almost always. My Mum videoed them in the tank yesterday, here's the footage:

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