“Fish”- #122 in the list of ” Crap I Want But Am Ashmed To Ask For”
Goldfish too “Middle School” for you? Maybe you had a friend who had a few piranhas. I did. That was so “dangerous”. We’d always “visit” around feeding time and we’d watch them compete for food. He was a consumate showman, teasing the fish to make certain that he had their undivided attention. They were only fish, but after a while any organism’s stomach “grows a clock”.
Don’t look at me like that. I was 14 what do you want from me? Anyway, getting back to aquariums-You did the saltwater thing; then switched to Fresh water, single species or multiple species and sooner or later if you’re a searcher you’ll be looking for something else. And, # 122 in List of “Crap You Want, But Are Ashamed To Ask For” is your next acquisition: “Primitive/Exotic fish, well, some sort of proto trilobite, maybe”. Remember those Sea Monkeys? -from when you were a kid? They were in the back of every comic book for a generation. One of the steadiest ad buys in the History of Advertising, I’ll bet! And for only $1.49 (plus 50 cents if you wanted “rush” service) you could be amazed and delighted in you own home.
Well this is like that, but not so snuggly. The marketing for the sea Monkeys was pretty slick: They send brine shrimp that revive when the salinity of the water gets to a certain point and they awake and try to have a life. All the while, you are watching and being entertained by their antics. This is beginning to sound a lot like the “Truman Show”…(People either loved that movie or hated it-) Well, this is sort of like that, only this is an animal with a desperate need for a good PR campaign. You see, they look sort of like extras from an upcoming Jurrasic Park franchise installment- “Starring Zac Branf!” There’s not a lot of information given and they’re pretty small, but it is the equivalent of having exotic chameleons, but without the smells (which are impressive if you’ve ever been im a room with a couple dozen chameleons!), and because they look like little seafaring dinosaurs (if you squint really hard) they have a certain “Wow factor” about them, so check out these monochromatic, and rather “proto” looking pets.
You’ll want to name them of course. I’d suggest naming them after all the characters who followed “Vince” around in “Entourage”. Admittedly if you get a lot of these critters, them you’ll have to get down into the “recurring characters”, but not the characters from Season Two, if you know what I mean, and I think you do! Anyway I’m thinking of getting some. I’ll put them in with the goldfish and let them battle it out.
What? Part of me is still “14”.
