The Survivor!

Look who I found peeking around today?! LITTLE FISH! I haven't seen him for a couple of weeks and assumed he was dead. He actually had a pretty good chance of dying since I was doing some serious gravel vacuuming and water changes nearly every day during this period. I was also cutting back on how much I was feeding the big girls during this period. I'm super surprised he didn't starve. So today he seemed to venture out of wherever he was hiding. The girls seem pretty interested in watching him and will sometimes chase him for a short period, but then swim away. I did see one of them nip but I pounded the glass at her and she went away. He's pretty fast!

Size comparison.....
When I first laid eyes on him 2 weeks ago he was about a 1/4 of the size of one of the pieces of gravel- not picture worthy. He's so big now!!

On the flip side, one of my big girls is sick. I'm pretty sure she'll die soon. She has clamped down her fins and just sits around. When she does swim it's really erratic. I can't figure out what's wrong with her. I've read that it's very common that when Platies give birth they often can die for unknown reason in the first month or so....I'm not sure who gave birth to warrior fish, but perhaps it was her. For now she's still eating, but I'm keeping a close eye on her.

Also when I went to look for him this morning, I saw THREE more tadpoles about 1/4 of his size. Apparently someone is still birthing tadpoles. I can't believe I saw three more already this morning. We'll see if they live.