Monday, September 5, 2011

The New Fish, Chapter II

As some of your know, about three weeks a go we got a new aquarium as a replacement for our beloved Noah.  We were told to place three new fishes at a time.  Well it was time to add more new fish to our infamous aquarium.  After a short trip to our neighborhood Petco, we came home with three more new fish.

You would think, WOW our fish look really cool, We asked Nathan what he was going to name them, of course Noah, so were up to three or four fish named Noah.

Only one exception, of course only the man in the family would pick up on the following:

"Dianne that fish is aggressive".  It turns out the fish was not aggressive, he was ready to mate. Yup, you guessed it.  Our Black molly is a male fish and the two new mollys were female.  Of course Brian looks it up on the internet and finds out that one fish can lay up to 60 eggs.  Now Brian is in a panic.  It's like 11pm at night.  He decides he wants to flush the two new females down the toilet.

Wait one minute, why do we need to get rid of the females, the boy fish can't keep it to himself.  Brian says, well the male has been here longer.  Well I wasn't going to flush two perfectly healthy fish down the toilet,  I thought maybe Uncle Shawn can get the new fish.  Brian looks at me and says, "Shawn doesn't want any fish", well Jocelyn's birthday is coming,, what a great gift.  Well we all agreed  "NO".

We decided to separate the female fish from the male fish.  The question came up, What are we going to tell Nathan.  Too young for the birds and the bees conversation.

Well this morning, Baby daddy and Nathan went back  to Petco with the two female \fish.  Brian told Nathan we needed to return the girl fishies because we only needed boy fishies in the tank.  Nathan was quick to remind me that there is still a girl fish, ZOE in the aquarium.  If he only new that ZOE is actually a boy fish.

As the new fish get to know each other, the black molly is chasing the new fish,  typical man doesn't realize that even though it looks like the old mollys this one is a boy and does not play like that.

Nathan is more concern with going swimming himself than what the boy fish is doing,  Even though it might rain he suggested we take an umbrella inside the pool.

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  1. I am sorry to report one of new fish didn't make it. He was struggling for a few days and finally expired.

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