Thursday, September 28, 2006

Just keep swimming

	Last night my mom brought home a fish from work... 0_o; She does home health care, which is basically babysitting handicapped children in their homes. Well this one autistic boy she takes care of twice a week had a fish tank in his room with a goldfish and a plecostomus (aka a sucker mouth catfish) and the pleco wsa bothering the goldfish. Since the goldfish was the boy's favorite, special fish, his mom asked my mom to take the pleco and a spare fish tank they had to make sure their goldfish would be okay. So she came home with a fish in a big and a 10 gallon fish tank, and my 2 yr old sister Kimmie was all excited and kept saying "Memo!" (She really loves Finding Nemo) So after filling the fish tank with water and a single sunken ship, and putting the pleco in (which we named Frank) we bought a filter, some colored pebbles, and a Shubunkin goldfish, which is a common, hardy breed of goldfish originally from Japan. He's a really pretty white with orange and black spots, and he's really active. He keeps swimming to the top and making the water splash. xD My mom kept saying we should get an Angel Fish, but those are like a tropical breed and I knew she was thinking of the wrong thing but finally figured out what she wanted was actually called a Fantail Goldfish. We used to have one like 5 years ago named Big Mama who lives for like two years, and she was so fat that she floated at the surface, tail up, and she really had to struggle to get her head to the surface to eat. XD So I decided we should get a Fantail Goldfish, Black Moor Goldfish, and a Ryukin Goldfish because they're all good breeds that can be in the same tank together and are pretty easy to care for. A long time ago we had a fish tank but my mom had no idea of the right way to go about caring for the tank and buying fish and such, and we mixed all sorts of breeds of fish that shouldnt be mixed, like Bettas in the tank with goldfish. 0_o; And we never cleaned the water right or changed the filter or made sure the water was the right temperature. So yeah, now I'm addicted to aquarium fish. 0.o;

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