so i have these fish      * March 3rd     Our Angels, Comet and Ajax, layed eggs and fertilized them a little more than a week ago   The embryos looked like Caviar on the leaf of the plant they were planted upon   Attentive when one fell, it would get sucked up and placed back in the pile   Three days ago a swarm of tadpole sperm was swimming, they didn't look like Angelfish yet   What good parents they are, corralling them keeping them in sight at all times   When one misbehaves, defying that invisible child's Gate, i would  get sucked up and spit back out  within the confines of the other parent's watchful eyes   Two days ago the swarm looked thinner   Yesterday morning, while making coffee, i noticed but only a dozen or two   By late afternoon, a handful could been seen swimming their spermlike dances   8 o'clock last night, i could only see two, three or four still swimming, still swarming around that leaf on the plant     Today i awoke and saw that Comet & Ajax weren't talking to one another,   avoiding contact - one on the right side of the tank - the other all the way left -   Who's left? i looked, but could not find a heartbeat   Where'd they go? wondering if that filter sucked them wondering if Mom or Dad ate them.... hmmmmm       It's so quiet in there ~ Ajax looks stunned, Comet looks sad   Like deer in the headlights....   They mourning their loss     But like clockwork, Round Four will begin in two weeks or so, Comet and Ajax, will lay eggs and fertilized them on the leaf of that plant ,,,,   Oh, i hope that when the sunlight hits the tank just right this afternoon, one tadpole sperm will emerge... just as strong in conviction as Mom & Dad and maybe, just maybe     I'll get to watch his Wings emerge..     *   march 4th     so i have these fish all attention's gone to the angels still no signs of wee-life-forms'  tadpole sperm dancing   have i looked this up on the net yet?...(no)... i'd rather form my opinions having convinced myself now, that they are indeed beneath the gravel,   i imagine tadpole-sperm caves     to incubate.     *   march 8th       seems the only incubating going on was within Comet she laid eggs today, not even two weeks after laying her third coddle i am tired     watching she and Ajax every time i did not see them do their spawning dance still don't know the music they heard either i did not see the fertilization i could do without peeping-tom peering   i am tired however, this is family and i will grow into my role as cheerleader but not tonight   *   may 22nd     i'm sorry i forgot to mention that Comet Killed Rainbow A Few Days Ago   made him LEAP high enough & fassst enough   to land, an easy five feet away, on the living room   carpet without one drop of water, to follow the path to his death   Comet is psychotic eyes twitching side-to-side-to-sideways   today i questioned her   to her face, with no threatening   quick movements to scare her, to put her in the   throws (sp?) of attack she listened and i asked, WHAT ARE YOU SEEING?     i looked for answers in the water  with vague results, phantom dreams then went into the kitchen to see the tank from   another view   sunlit background illuminated the water and i saw them!   short, white strands at first then black dots at one end to seeing a tadpole sperm angel swimming so freely     let's not forget... Comet is Psychotic...   she'll manage to kill her children,   Evil Cannibal Comet   but Selfish Comet  will not commit suicide   leaving Ajax the satisfactory treat   of EATING HER!                       ~Ye of Little Faith~   © dlc ~mahalo~