PART 12: THE BABIES GET A NEW HOME!

The babies were happy and healthy in the bucket-nursery. However, a few of them died eventually. I thought, that was natural. And, anyway, I did not expect that all the 50+ babies were going to survive to see their adulthood. Their population was going to be substantially smaller eventually, naturally. I wanted to take them out of the bucket-nursery to a new home. I thought, the ‘water processing and stabilization’ unit would be a great choice for the purpose. That was a 15-Litre all-glass fishbowl. When it comes to aquariums, I like it all-glass, always! We were going to celebrate my daughter Aditi’s 3rd birthday in a couple of days. I thought, it would be a good idea to make the new fishbowl ready with the baby-platies in it. I guessed that Aditi’s guests would certainly be pleasantly surprised to see the smallest live fish they had ever witnessed in their lives. With that thought in mind, I started my work.

I did not have to do much for the purpose. The fishbowl was already clean and I just had to add a little more water. I thought, it would be better to just have a few babies transferred to the fishbowl. In that way, I would be in a position to monitor their health and take a decision on transferring the rest of the babies to the fishbowl. I transferred 8 baby-platies to the fishbowl. On the day of Aditi’s birthday celebration, not only the invited children, but also their parents were so happy to see so tiny beautiful fishes in the newly setup fishbowl. Most of the children just wanted to stay near that fishbowl to watch those tiny fishes. I told them that there were 8 babies and they might try to locate each of them. There were ample number of hiding places in that fishbowl and it was a real challenge to locate each of the 8 babies! After a couple of days, I was sure that there was nothing in the fishbowl that could negatively affect the babies. With that thought, I transferred the rest of the baby-platies into the fishbowl. I understood that naturally only a few of them were going to survive to see their adulthood. Life went on fine for the babies in their new home. And, I was going to come across a very interesting experience NEXT!

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