I have a fish tank!

[nonionay]

My co-worker Ryan kept trying to shove his fish tank off on me. At first, I didn't want it, since there was no space at the House of Entropy. But now, at the new place, Keffy has set us all on a fish craze. So Ryan has just delivered his twenty gallon tank, complete with sexy black stand and other accoutrements, snails, bog logs, and his three immortal tetras. I think they're Black Neon Tetras. Until the tank settles, they're hanging out in a jar with a bubbler stuck in it.

I hope to eventually get a separate tank with some dwarf pufferfish, and I'll feed any excess snails to them. :-P I think I want to get more tetras, and definitely an albino pleco. Oh yeah, and plants. I need some plants.

EDIT: Looks like I have Mayalan Livebearing snails. Which is apparantly good, in that they are great at clearing algae, and bad, in that they breed like mad, but it's tough for snail-eating fish to eat them. If I get the puffers, we'll see if a single adult snail will provide enough soft squooshy babies for the puffers to eat and be happy.

EDIT EDIT: Holy crap, I think one of them gave birth just now! Or had one of the little boogers hidden up its shell.

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[westrider.livejournal.com]

Plecos are some of the coolest things I've ever seen. I'm not even a fish guy, and I think they're totally awesome. Whenever I come up to visit, I go with Jesse to the Pet Store, and I end up spending more time watching that tank with the really big Pleco in it than anything else.

They should be really creepy, but somehow they just end up being totally cool.