Baby fish

I have come to the conclusion that fish are not very bright at all. I have just had babies. Not me personally, one of my fish I mean...I noticed that one of them was looking quite fat and pregnantish (and thats a real word too ;-) ), so I took her out and put her in this little floating tank thing. It's got a bit that goes in the bottom that has little slats in so that when the mother has babies, they drop through so she can't get to them and scoff them. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop the babies from trying to swim up through the slats. When I noticed them last night I had 3 babies, about half an hour later there was one left and mother was looking very unhungry :-( There wasn't a lot I could do about it, if they had been born in the main tank they'd have been et by the rest of the fish, so they stood a better chance in the breeding tank thing. I turned the light off and left them to it, I can't watch the poor little buggers getting eaten by their cannabalistic mother. This morning when I took her out and put her back in the main tank, there were two baby fish hiding in the bottom of the floating thing. They look marginally happier now there is no chance of being eaten. I don't know how long they will last, the last time I had babies, I rescued about 20 of them out of the main tank and managed to rear one of them. He died when I had my tank problems a few months ago, and I got really upset when the other fish ate him. It's a cruel, cruel world.

Anyway, I'm going out to watch Shrek 2 with my fella. I may be back later, with baby fish developments, then again I may not...