Angel Fish
Yupz.. Su called me up when I was finishing up my
dance practise that day. She asked me to choose between Angel fish and white mices... I
was like.. huh??? What do you mean by choosing?? Eeek.. definately not Mices. We just had
a terrible experience with a friend's Hamsters... one of the bigger female rodent actually
bite off the head of a smaller male during one of the weekends when she left for home. (
The hamsters were kept in her hostel room ). We all got a shock! Apparently, the female
was in a crazy mood.. [She's pregnent] and most probably, "chen long" that's the
small male hamster's name.... agitated it accidently.. causing such a tradegic episode.
So Mices are out for me, despite Su trying to convince
me that they are not like the hamsters... I guess I was just grossed out.I think fishes
will do just fine! =) no thanks for Hamsters. Just in case you think i am prejudiced..
well, i happened to own a pet hamster like in Secondary school. But it disappeared one
day.. I didn't latched the cage properly...... *sob*
Next day, Su got four Angel fish back school. complete
with a tank and pump and food for them. They are so tiny.. like fifty cent coins each!!
Two were black striped and two were just plain silver. I named them after my dancemates
then. Hee hee... Till now, only one of them knows about their namesake! =)
So it's like everyday, we'll feed them and change
water like once a month or so. The sounds of water bubbles from the tank's really nice. if
you feel stressed out.. just looking at them swim in the tank, just kinda lift your
spirits. During the hols, when both of us moved back home .. we shifted them to Su's fish
tank at home. However disaster strikes... two of the fishes didn't survive..."SH and
DB" died...... =(
They are the smallest striped fish and the
larger silver angel fish.. Heard from Su's sis.. they got some kinda disease... [ =( ]
From then on we left the other two fishes in the tank
till another few more months later.... we transferred four blind cave fish instead back to
hall.
The angel fish got to stay with the cave fishes when
we transported them back hall... Cos' we both missed them very much. By now.. they have
both grown rather big! Like the size of your palm!!! The striped one is as naughty as
ever.. so is the silver one.
Now, the silver Angel fish " JC" is
back in the tank at Su's place together with "aaron" the striped one". =)
They are staying together with Su's sis's other fishes.. she's got a few Neo Tetras, black
angel fish, silver dollars, and a few eels! Cool hor...
We let go of the Blind cave fish when we went back
home. they are now at Hall 6 pond.. swimming together with the carps. Hope they are doing
fine! We still go back there to feed the carps.. you know.. by just throwing bread into
the water... they really swamp the place when they are hungry for bread!! That's one of
our fav. past time together in school.
[Jess 11/06/2000]