Sunday, April 10, 2011

My new pets!

OK, since the cub doesn't let me have a puppy, I found a new animal I actually enjoy......Betta Fish a.k.a. Siamese fighting fish.  So one night the cub and I decide to visit the lesbian at work, she manages a petco or petsmart.....or pet something, anyways I was looking around the aquariums and was mesmerized by a little blue fish with spikey fins. Turns out he is a crown tail betta fish, I immediately picked him up and felt bad that he was in such a small container, so I bought him. The cub, not to feel left out, also bought a red crown tail betta fish, we bought the tanks, food and conditionar, and off we headed home with our new pets.  He name his Phoenix, after Jean Grey from the X-Men, because of her red hair and her powers, the Phoenix force. (guess his fish is gay) I name my fish, Poseidon, greek god of the sea.

Poseidon

Phoenix

The next day we headed to Walmart, cause the cub is still on the hunt for his Marvel figures, by the way I hate Walmart. We happen to walk by the pet section of the store and they had betta fish! But they were in horrible condition, I felt really bad. The water was dirty, they were barely in an inch of water and who knows when was the last time they got feed. So we decided to save two, we looked for the ones we liked and not a heart beat away from death. We found two, the Cub name his Shanichi....I asked the Cub what is up with the ghetto name, he said it is not, its a vampire's name from a book he read. I still think its ghetto. I named my fish Chance, cause he has a chance to live away from Walmart-hell. 
Chance with a live fresh water plant

Shanichi

The following day I went a bit crazy, so we already have four fish in four different tanks. They have to live in separate tanks or they'll start fighting till one dies. I went over to Petsmart and they had their anniversary sale. I notice that their bettas were on sale so I bought another one. He is a beautiful blue betta fish, his name is Azul, which means blue in Spanish. Once I got home the Cub scolded me and told me no more betta fish unless its a female betta, for breeding. By the way the female betta fish are ugly, they look BLAH. So I agreed no more betta fish.  Later in the day, I felt bored so I headed to a local aquarium, they have exotic fish, but their betta fish sucked. So, I headed to the next aquarium store and there I bought an exotic looking female betta. (the Cub said no more betta fish unless its a female, right?) Then I saw that in some of the betta fish tanks, they had Mexican mini crawfish so I bought one of those too. The lady gave me 2 fresh water plants for free too! So I headed home with my new pets and the Cub just laughed at me and had nothing to say, except that I have to take care of the fish. So the female betta's name is Venus and the Mexican mini crawfish his name is Sebastian. 
Azul
Venus

Sebastian
Here is a few pictures of the new pets. 
Venus and Shanichi, I going to get these two to breed.

Azul and Poseidon, flaring up.....fighting.

Sebastian climbed the plant and now he is free falling....Crazy Mexican!


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