The fighting fish who lived here

I found out that I am pretty quiet here lately so I decided to put up a new blog.

A little while ago I bought 3 Siamese Fighting Fish, 1 male and 2 females. I haven't posted about them yet so this blog will be about them.

I've had fighting fish before but 1 I had to sell because he started to kill all the other fish in my tank. This is the killing fighting fish:

The second came after my Guppy's left the tank since the first focussed his killings on them. He was a beautiful one and was harmless to the other fish. Unfortunally he ended up being eaten by my killing lobster. This is him:

My new male is here for about a month now together with his two females. I only have a picture of the male. One of the females is a dark blue and the other a light pink.
This male is a nice one as well. Leaves the other fish alone but isn't afraid to try to impress his own reflection as he was doing on this next picture.

Ancistrus dolichopterus eggs

It happened! For a couple of weeks now my male Ancistrus was swimming after the female so I kind of expected eggs from them. Still when the male wouldn't come out of his hidingplace in the piece of wood in the fishtank yesterday I wondered what he was doing. I decided to take a picture of him in it and what did I see on the picture? The space in the wood where he sat was filled with orange eggs! Of course I kept a close eye on him the rest of the day and when he decided to get out of his hidingplace for a minute I quickly made some pictures of the eggs. There are alot of them! I hope at least some will grow up.

The pictures:

Mommy and daddy fish (sorry for the filthy window....)

 First picture I took, see those eggs?

 And when he was away for a moment

 There dad is again, guarding his eggs.

fishy

So, I think one of my fish is a male. He starts to get a beard :). I tried to make a picture of his new beard but it is not that easy unfortunally. I guess his beard can be seen a little on these pictures. I'll make new ones when the beard is bigger.

 And my lobster also LOVES the cucumber!

New inhabitant

Since today there's somebody new in my fishtank. A blue lobster. He's still small and he's a bit sad because he misses one of his paws (scissors?) but other then that he is very pretty. He's a bit shy though and hasn't came from under the piece of wood I have in my aquariam since he was released. Still I made some pictures of him.

He needs a name, any suggestions?

Fishy, fishy

So, unfortunally my male Platy died yesterday. He was already with me for longer then a year and he was already an adult when he came so I think he died of old age.
I already have a new male in the fishtank and he looks so much like the previous guy.

This was my old male:

And this is my new boy:

They really do look alike, don't they? The new one is a lighter shade of yellow but maybe he will darken in time. Guess I just will have to wait and see.