my smallest babies

For those of you who are interested, these are the tiny-est babies to have to care for! I had a fun suprise Tues morning when I came down to the basement. Our female molly had released some babies! I have no idea how many she had, but when I discovered them, there were only three. I imagine someone had a nice treat that morning! The mollies will sometimes eat their young, but there are 2 balas (sharks) in their tank too, so...

They are baby mollies; their momma is a black
molly named Boomerang, and daddy is a mostly black dalmation molly named King George. No name yet for the babies; any ideas? The babies are dark, with one of them darker, perhaps black. Makes me wonder if the other two will be dalmation colored! They're way too little to tell at this point! They are in a nursery/trap that is attached to the side of the other mollies' tank.
Here you can see how tiny they are; the pink stuff is fish food, that flake is about the size of half my littlest fingernail! Anyhow, we are having tons of fun with our many fish and soon this tank full will have a brand new home! We finally bought a big tank with the works; including the stand! I think we'll have to eventually get another big tank for the cichlids, they won't stay small forever!

If there are any hobbyists out there reading this, I would love to hear from you!

Well, time to get off this thing! Have a good day!

Whoosh!

Know this fellow? Yes, Miss JennaMae was to busy to be bothered with a picture!

Hello all! We have had a very busy spring. I took the monkeys on a three week 'roadtrip'. We left Kearney (warm and sunny) for Indiana on March 20; stopping for breakfast, lunch (both hour long stops), then to some wonderful friends in Iowa for a long run (literally! the monkeys chased each other around and around the house). Also got to see Jeffers the Butler there! That was sooooo nice! I haven't gotten to see Jeff since before JennaMae was born! Thank you so very much Brenda! The kiddos had fun playing and 'helping' feed the bottle calves and lambs at Doug and Brenda's farm. And I had a great chance to visit and relax!

I noticed at every stop that it was a little (ok, sometimes alot) cooler than the last stop! We eventually got to Duane's brother and family for the night. I say that because I missd my exit and ended up going the very scenic route! Two hours of it! Glen and Becky had freezing rain and by the time we got to my parents, we were into snow!

I am reminded now why I don't do this very often! I have several fighting, hitting, screaming little monkeys (they can get really loud), and this thing (the blogger thing) is really annoying! As you have seen at THE TOP OF THIS PAGE, we had a birthday party for all the kiddos. The birthdays are all from Dec to April so we just had one huge bash. The kids had fun and thanks to Aunt Miss, they each had their own party hat, or beak! My mom made an adorable little snowman cake and six cupcakes- one for each birthday kid!

This was just the first 2 days worth of 'stuff'! Ah.... WHOOSH!!!