My new pets

[Useless]

Originally Posted by sexandcash

definitely the oddest choice of pet I've seen

My mother-in-law had a blue one in her aquarium with her tropical fish. I think they're fairly uncommon, but not odd. Blue is odd. (I think they inject dye into to them for that.)

For the record, I think the crucial difference between what I said and what Dollpix said is that I know Digifan and she knows me and my humor. I felt comfortable saying it because I knew she'd take it as it was meant - a minor jest. I assume that Dollpix probably wouldn't have said what she said if it wasn't for me setting the stage for that type of thing. Sorry Digi.

I always thought that I would be a good pet owner, but I'm not. I grew up having cats and dogs, but own my dogs and cat wear me down. (They're possibly even more needy than I am, and that's really, really needy.) Our friends seem to think our dogs are great, so maybe they aren't the total bastards I perceive them to be. (The dogs, not our friends. Our friends are bastards.) We had a 55 gallon aquarium with Oscars, and I liked them, but it seemed like a lot of work to keep the tank clean. They shit a lot. If they every create a fish that shits water, I'll consider getting another aquarium.

[sue-fl]

They are cute digifan! The fact that they make you happy makes them extra cute

[John-ACWM]

Cool pets, didn't think of that Merry Christmas!

[Mr Exotic]

I used to have 5 or 6 fish tanks going at all times, I had African cichlids in a couple tanks and the South American cichlids in some others. And usually had a tank with live plants and community tropicals. Nowadays I just have a 20 gallon planted tank (I do C02 injection, high lighting, and ferts) that I raise fancy guppies in and a keep a bare 10 gallon in to put the females that are getting ready to drop babies and to actually raise the babies big enough so that they dont get ate. When a baby gets so big its endanger of eating the newborns I put it in the big tank. I started off with 3 males and 7 females of different types of fancy guppies and now have around 20 adults and probably 150 babies or more. I also cull (flush down the tiolet) the baby uglies, since I am selectively breeding them and hoping to someday create my own "strain" of fancy guppies.

To get back on topic, I once found a big crawdad crawling around a parking lot after a rain storm one summer night, took him home and put him my community take. He was quite a woot always waving his claws at the fish trying to catch them, but never succeeding. Then one day he was gone, later that night found him dried up and dead on the other side of the house.

[digifan]

The water is getting better and cleaner every day.. they look so damn funny We used to have goldfish, blue crayfish, those big crabs.. now sis has all kinds of trendy shrimps and I got these 3 critters.
A pic taken today.

[balls_deep]

Nice pics, I still think they look tasty

[digifan]

Originally Posted by balls_deep

Nice pics, I still think they look tasty

Lol you won't eat them sorry