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Kissing Fish

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My boss has several fish tanks in her house and garage. The ones in her garage are fish destined to be brought to a customer’s house or they are the retirement home for fish that had to come out of someone’s aquarium for one reason or another.

She had two large blood parrots, which are hybrid cichlids, in one of her freshwater tanks. One came back from a customer because it had a large tumor on its back, the other had a different problem that I don’t remember. The two became very close while in recovery.

I feel bad but the fish with the tumor recently went back to his original home and a new blood parrot was added which the remaining blood parrot has taken a liking to,

Photo Friday: Dogface Puffer

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I’ve mentioned before that I think a Dogface Puffer is the coolest fish you can have in your aquarium. Here is a picture I took the other day of one who had wedged himself into the decorations and was just lying there watching us.

Many of these fish will do a little dance to get people’s attention. I think it is their way of trying to get fed. Most will also let me pet them. Yesterday I had to move a large puffer out of the corner so I could clean the glass. I gently put my hand around him and moved him out of the way. Most other fish would freak out if I tried that.

Photo Friday: Abbey and Alex

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Today I want to do something a little different and post a photo from the past, well before Chris was born. I actually took this picture on my birthday, July 9, 2005.

This was the first picture I could find of our two cats, Abbey and Alex, so I think we had just adopted them. Back then Abbey was called Stirling and Alex was called Sloan. We actually adopted Alex but we couldn’t take him and leave his sister behind so we took her too, which was an excellent decision. While we had Alex out of the cage at the PetSmart shelter, Abbey pooped and left it unburied. It was the stinkiest poop we ever smelled and it seemed to remain that stinky throughout her life. Also, her habit of not burying her stinky poops remained too.

Here is Abbey trying to figure out how to get at the fish while Alex looks on.

cats and fish tank