My wife's friend has a beauty salon in Udon Thani and I always admired the giant pot out on her step. It contains a few plants and the most gorgeous tiny fish I've seen. Giant guppies flashing colors on their tails. Fat, wobbly goldfish that poke and explore around the lillies.
So my lovely and talented wife thought it would be nice to have a fish pot (technically not a tank, more of a ceramic pot) on our back porch. So two months ago, off she goes to buy a pot and a few plants -- not as big as her friend's but good enough. We visited the local fish store and bought TEN, count 'em, 10 fish. Five males and five females.
Life was good for our new pets. Until they started at it. Within days two of the fish appeared bloated and I thought wifey was feeding them too much. I was wrong. A few days later there were about 20 kids bobbing around lookin for dinner.
Wow. We were a bit amazed that we selected two preggy bitches out of the five females. We also noticed several water snails suckin the scum off the sides of the pot.
Today, I looked again, and I'll be dipped in shit. About 75 fish in there and it looks like that number is going to grow. And there are probably 25 snails, but my wife confirmed that she'd eat those bastards if they got to thick.
And then I noticed this.
What's in these tiny fish pellets the pet store guy sold me? Whatever it is, it's puttin the horn on these buggers and ain't none of 'em a narwhal. Is this normal? To go from 10 to almost 100 in two months? Will they slow down or take a break? My wife said the best thing to do is separate the males and females but I have two issues with that idea.
1. I can't, even with a magnifying glass, see any lil fish willies.
2. If I were a fish in a tank of other male fish, I'd grow extremely irate and start killing things.
Short of getting another pot, I'm not sure what to do. Is there a requirement for the size or type of fish that go into Pah-la?
Any and all advice is welcomed.