Well, I guess you all deserve an update on the aquarium. The lobster was beginning to become too much to handle. He was really fun to watch, but he thought it was fun to uproot all our plants (we only have live plants in our tank). That was not so fun for us. Also, just after we "clipped" his pincers (see post here), he molted and lost an entire claw! Well, it started growing back full size and after he molted a second time it was just too much for us to bear imaging him ripping up our fish again. He ended up earning us $13 of in-store credit at AquaTropics, our favorite pet store. That earned us an Angelfish and a Butterfly Fish (very exotic). Much better than our pesky lobster!
The Butterfly Fish is pretty cool. He floats at the surface and really does look like he has butterfly wings. I tried to take a good picture, but to no avail. So I found one online!
Isn't he interesting? So far we like him. Pretty good trade in! However, the other half our trade in, the Angelfish, wound up dead on Tuesday in the tank. Steven found him after coming home early (Steven's been battling a bad cold lately). Good thing AquaTropics guarantees fish for three days! Steven drove the fish corpse over to the store and came home with a new Angelfish (hopefully not to die as well). Five of the Angelfish in the aquarium at AquaTropics were also dead! Hmmm...bad batch? Anyways, that's our update! Who knows, soon all of you will be fish experts via our mishaps. For instance, all of you will know that it's way too troublesome to invest in a lobster, even if they do look pretty awesome.
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