Awww they're gorgeous!
*waves*
You'll have to tell me all their favourite foods so I know what to give them to make them happy
I'm going to spoil them rotten, just like my clowns are
Gonna show Kev when he gets in and I know he can't help but fall in love, even though he'll deny he has
I truly saw how much he loves these fish earlier when we had to take apart the 6ft tank to net Squidge, our rescue tiny baby clown, as he's got the start of whitespot and just today has a clamped dorsal fin so needs to be treated. Noticed that two other tiny babies also have whitespot but so far the big clowns are all untouched so the tiny 1.5inchers are now all in a hospital tank.
But, when we were taking the tank apart, I was removing the bogwood and checking it piece by piece, I then positioned it over the tank so if any loaches should fall out they fall into the tank or at least into my view so I can rescue them.
I then look up and notice that one clown loach baby was over the side of the sliders ... one of the pieces of bogwood was on the back of the tank, overhanging the back. I've never panicked so much in my life. I got that loach in the tank and checked down the back of the tank and saw a baby clown loach flipping around in all the dust right in the middle of the back of the 6ft tank.
Kev taped a net to a metre ruler and got a torch and managed to get this baby out. Once he was out, he wasn't breathing or moving and was barely recognisable for dust. He didn't respond in the tank water so he put him in water a few degrees colder and managed to shock him into consciousness.
I was nearly in tears and was shaking so much I wasn't of any use but Kev was brilliant, although he told me to feel his heart afterwards and it was absolutely pounding.
I've just looked in the hospital tank (luckily already dosed up with salt) and I can barely tell him apart from the others now so he's recovering well and all that muck is off him. There's loads of daphnia in that tank so they've all been hoovering it up.
I don't think I've ever been so attached to fish before, I certainly have never really been so close to tears at the thought of losing one. This little clown loach definitely needs naming now! Only a few of my clowns have names, having so many, but this one will be named - any ideas?