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We're proud to announce the arrival of several (somewhere between 7 and 10) bouncing baby bristlenose plecos.

Eggs appeared in the 'hatching shell' about a week ago with daddy pleco guarding and frantically flapping at them. Mummy pleco having done her bit sodded off to make the most of having first dibs at all the food. Tiny little plecos emerged on Saturday and now they're happily zipping about the tank and glomming* onto anything they can catch. They started off pretty transparent, but have now mostly coloured up and look like teeny tiny (about 12mm long) replicas of Mummy and Daddy (who are about 6cm long). As offspring of Mr and Mrs Glom, they are hereby called Glomessimals (or possibly Glomlets, Glomicules or Glomites).

More photos will appear here I would imagine

*Glomming - the process of a pleco attaching it's mouth onto something (eg the glass side of the tank) and maneuvering about the surface.

We have new residents in our fish tank. Two perky, grinning parrot fish who have been called Pyrite ('cos he's a fake goldfish) and Kumquat ('cos he's orange) and four zippy little corydoras catfish called Slash, Dot, Boing and Boing (Cory -> Doctorow -> Boing Boing).

Already established are Blob and Dippy the tiger barbs, four Odessa Barbs called something chemistry related I can't remember, Guinness the Pleco and Lorem and Ipsum the Synodonta (although they hide at the back so are rarely seen).