So, I may have seen "Finding Nemo" a few too many times. But as you can observe from the title, I have fish!
Admittedly I also have two cats (hand raised from 3 weeks 'cause their mum was skittled) who are 6yrs old, a dog who is now.... oh wow, 12 years old, a rabbit we've had for nearly a year and two parakeets we've had for less than two months.
But I like tropical fish. We used to have a 6 foot tank, length not height. It held - maximum number we reached only once - 264 guppies, 25 neon tetras, 6 sharks (which aren't full of teeth but are amazingly cute), 12 catfish and 31 snails. Oh and 5 painted angelfish! Now though we have a small hexagonal tank that's about a metre tall. We just bought guppies, mollies and neon tetras - because neons are my favourite, I love the bright blue flash - yesterday. This morning though, we went and bought two sharks, one of which is an albino. Usually sharks are black with red or yellow fins, but this one is white bodied with pale yellow fins. And my new favourite whom I have named squishy (hence the title) is a catfish. Now most catfish are long, dull grey/brown and quite thin. This one is black with white spots!!!! He's kinda fat too and only about as long as the guppies, he looks a bit like a night-sky. *bounces*
So yes, I now have a menagerie of all bar two animals that I actually want. I can't have a Chinchilla because of the cats and I can't have a snake because mum hates them. Dad and I promised to keep it int he shed but she refuses. I also really want a ferret ala "Beastmaster", Kodo and Podo are so adorable.
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