FEESH!!!

I have had no ideas to write about lately since school started both in terms of teaching grade 2 and also I am taking one graduate course. Many of you loyal readers will wonder if I ever got my papers done from the summer. Well, I did! Now I have NEW papers to write for my course on "Text and Interpretation". I'm learning about guys like Martin Heidigger, who started all this Hermeneutics stuff that the postmoderns like to go on about. I'm starting to understand it. Just barely. So, instead of writing something new;I am shamelessly copying my sister's recent entry in this blog. I wanted to let you all know about the fish I take care of in my life. It's a hobby, but it's grown a bit.

At home:

1) 1 gallon tank with two goldfish. Like my sister's, they were feeder fish and not supposed to actually live very long. We bought them for my oldest daughter's 4th birthday. She'll be 8 in December. Yes, they're still alive.

2) 2 little fish bowls that were given to my daughters that each contain one male betta. There were a year old when we received them. They're still alive two years later.

3) One 29 gallon tank with various tetras, white clouds and a long finned blue danio. There is also one Panda cory, which I totally love and want to get a couple more so he can have buddies.

At school:

Well, they heard I like to take care of fish at school, so they accepted a donation from the local police. It seems that the police busted a local grow-op (marijuana grow operation - quite the business here in BC) and this tank set up was left behind. Well, I got it running and got some fish. I figure the tank is at least 55 gallons, maybe 60. It has a filtration system that cost at least $300! Those grow-ops must make good money....

The school tank is fairly healthy, but I'm having a bullying problem with the Silver Dollar fish (which were donated about two years ago). They are eating everything and leaving nothing for the albino cories to eat. I have a special fondness for cories, so I'm not particularly liking Silver Dollarsso much. I'm getting food to the one albino cory that's left. When I get a good 'sneaky' system up and running for feeding the cory, I'll buy some more cories for the school tank. The school tank also has a mini-school of tiger barbs. These are fun fish, but you have to have a good school of them and they can be nippy, so they limit the kinds of fish you can buy.

So those are the days of these fishies lives....