New Fish Day

[kiya]

First note. Toooooo daaaaaaaaaaaamn hooootttttt. Cleaned up some of the stuff in the way so teinedreugan could put in the other AC unit when he got home. Which is why the living room is liveable; he set that up before we went out.

Out was productive. Got a lamp to put in the mathom room (so I can have indoor lighting for the lily tank). Got a new phone earpiece (mine has succumbed to the fact that I affect my environment like a Calabite, and also the fact that the old one irritated me). Got new printer cartridge. Then got an orange and cinnamon sticks (for the rhodomel I need to start before the roses go) and lightbulbs for the lamp.

And then fish. (It is also worth noting that there was an awfully cute I-think-it-was-a jungle carpet python coiled up around a branch. Cuteness!) (Also they had crawdads. Swimming ones, not just lurking ones.) It was New Fish Day at the pet store -- about a third of the tanks had plastic bags floating in them with fish in, staring out at the world and going 'glurp'. Took your advice, alhandra -- got a half dozen cherry barbs to go with the algae-eaters. The algae-eaters were hard to catch, and were in a tank with a burrowing eel; the shop clerk would chase an algae-eater around with the net, and disturb the eel, which would suddenly snap into vision, undulate across the tank, and vanish into the gravel again as smoothly as Kitty Pryde. Shoop!

Came home, read yehoshua's summary of today's game and read bits of it to teinedreugan. Fishies are now in their own bag, floating in the lily tank to acclimate. Water swap in half an hour, and I check on them occasionally to make sure the cats aren't getting at 'em.

Had this conversation with oneironaut:

I say "THe barbs are all attempting to swim out the corne of the bag they're in. All of them. At once."
oneironaut says "United we stand...."
I say "United we all attempt to occupy the same place at the same time."
oneironaut says "United we don't have a very good grasp of physics...."

So. New fish day.

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[jennaria.livejournal.com]

I think I need more sleep. I scared my cat giggling over the fish-without-physics.

[leanne-opaskar.livejournal.com]

Yay for fishies! Yay for cherry barbs!

I have cherry barbs too, and yea verily are they adorable. Very slow and peaceful for barbs ... my tiger barbs are very active and feisty in comparison.

If you take good care of them, the males will end up being the color of cherry Kool-Aid. (: I am so not even kidding -- mine are a gorgeous bright red. I don't know how well your pet store took care of them, but give them a week or two on good feeding (and the occasional frozen bloodworm treat) and they will brighten up spectacularly.

You got Chinese/Siamese/whatever they're calling them this week algae eaters? Or plecos?

Yay fishies! *bounce bounce bounce*

[kiya]

I thought that might be what that was; got two males and four females. ;)

Got Chinese algae-eaters. Which are now Chinese algae-eater. :/ I suspect that they got injured in the attempts to catch them; they were awfully elusive. Poor fishies. I wonder where the one is; it's moved from where it was lurking this morning.

(There are so many pots and things in that tank that it's a shy fish paradise. Current record for knowing where barbs are is three at a time. When I released them into the tank they were going around in pairs, as if to make sure that their backs were being watched; now the only times I see them in pairs are when one of the males is chasing one of the females; I'm wondering if that means they'll breed.)

If we go back to the store, I'll see about picking up some bloodworms if the barbs like them so much. :)