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The Stick
Join Date: Dec 2007
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For several years out of college had a 120 gallon salt water aquarium. Had several fishes. Actually had a Blue Tang like Dory and a Clownfish like Nemo except it had all it's fins. Had 4 Damsel fish, blue like the Tang, with yellow tails. They are supposed to swim in a school, but you couldn't have divided the tank into 4 equal sections any better than they did. Had a brittle star, which is like a starfish but moves fast enough you can see it move.
Wanted an octopus until I found out you can't seal a tank well enough to keep them from getting out. Decided getting up in the middle of the night and stepping on a octopus with my bare foot would not be a pleasant experience.
Had to keep buckets of water setting out to evaporate off the chlorine. The tank itself evaporated off 3 gallons a day that had to be replaced to keep the chemicals balanced. Guess I just didn't have the top of my tank sealed well enough.
Wish I would have had one fish that was as much fun as one of the salt water fish at my chiropracters office. When I came in it would hide in the coral and rocks and slowly peek out in different places until I looked at it, then it would dive back into the coral. The girls in the office said it would swim all around the tank looking for me in the office when I was in getting my adjustment. Then, when I came out, it would dive back into the coral again. They said when I left out the front door it would go back to swimming around like it always did and I was the only one it did that with. Told them we were just playing peek-a-boo.
Pretty sure most of the other patients in the waiting room thought I was nuts slowly walking around the tank, then stopping, looking at the tank and saying peek-a-boo then laughing. As I would walk away the fish would slow come out of it's hiding place. When I would turn towards it and say peek-a-boo it would dive back into hiding. Every once in a while one of the other patients would comment, "Hey, you're playing peek-a-boo with that fish!"
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Richard aka "The Stick"
06 Cayenne S Titanium Edition
Last edited by RKDinOKC; 08-09-2016 at 02:19 PM..
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