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Mine have much longer elongated "tails" also, more whitish in color.
Question: did you take this w/a microscope digital camera or a digital microscope and what were your power settings?
Anyway, nice *shot!(RIP little fellows!).
*and excuse the bad pun
Posted by Geoff | May 16, 2009 3:35 PM
Do you know what kind of frogs those tadpoles grow up to become?
Posted by Bilbo | May 16, 2009 3:39 PM
Tadpoles???
Posted by Geoff | May 16, 2009 3:41 PM
Are they guppies?
I had some as a kid-also we had a tropical fish tank. I don't remember when or how we gave it up.
Posted by Cynthia | May 16, 2009 3:42 PM
They really are tadpoles(or guppies)-this really is embarrassing-boy, do I have egg on my beard!
A classic example of turning the most innocuous thing into something sexual. Like that old saying goes: *“Ho-Knee-Swah Key-Molly-Ponce”.
*Lakota Sioux, or something, for “Evil is he who evil thinks”.
Posted by Geoff | May 16, 2009 4:54 PM
Honi soit qui mal y pense?
Posted by Sue Hagmeier | May 16, 2009 7:12 PM
Ulp. I thought they were mosquito larvae.
Posted by NW Portlander | May 16, 2009 7:48 PM
Sea Monkeys? Any day now they will be building little houses and mini-marts in their bowl, and you'll see the daddy leaving his house with a brief case. They are awesome pets! My 70's-80's comic books told me so.....
PS - speaking of comic book deals....think of how much money the government would save if they could get 101 Army men for $1.
Posted by butch | May 16, 2009 8:33 PM
I was going to make a joke about someone getting a reverse vasectomy, but I wont.
Posted by TKrueg | May 16, 2009 8:38 PM
"Honi soit qui mal y pense?"
Those wily French-constantly appropriating from other
cultures(the English chip being one glaring example, our own Jerry Lewis being another) and now even from Native Americans, no less.
Curse their arrogance, their effete decadence!
Why can't the damn French just accept, be themselves? Mass inferiority complex, perhaps.
Honi soit qui mal y pense, my a*s!
Posted by Geoff (no, make that Jeff) | May 16, 2009 9:36 PM
They are guppies, photographed with an everyday camera.
Posted by Jack Bog | May 17, 2009 6:04 AM
Thanks Jack for responding to my initial post-and sorry for all the static.
Honi soit qui mal y pense!
Posted by Jeff (formally Geoff) | May 17, 2009 7:16 AM
Jeff: (May I call you Jeff? To be truly formal, I'd think "Geoffrey" would be called for.)
Relax. Chill. Sometimes a guppy is just a smoke, I mean, fish. And all eyes.
Posted by Sue Hagmeier | May 17, 2009 11:04 AM
Ms. Hagmeier,
Good advice-will do!
So even though Geoffrey is originally French-at least derived fr. Norman French, I like it better than Jeff, so I'll remain, with tongue still planted firmly in cheek, Geoffrey
Posted by Geoffrey | May 17, 2009 12:27 PM
Cool, Jack. Are these standard feeder guppies, or some of the more elaborate fancy guppies? (I have to admit that I'm more of a rosy barb or head-and-taillight tetra kind of guy myself, but I always have great memories of the first time I watched newborn guppies in my aquarium when I was seven.)
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | May 17, 2009 2:40 PM
I'm not sure which they are. Their parents have ornate tails -- the males' are colorful and the females' spotted.
Posted by Jack Bog | May 17, 2009 3:55 PM
If they're the type I suspect they are, you're going to have fun. When even the females have flair, these babies are going to be beautiful.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | May 19, 2009 7:14 AM