Through The Eyes Of The Fish

We're fcmf's fish and we've decided to start a thread from the fishes' perspective.

The female human tends to start work later on a Friday, often after doing our water change. Hooray, though, it's being postponed as she cut the edge of her hand on something in the kitchen and wants to make sure it's fully healed before subjecting us to this upheaval. We don't think the male human will do the water change as he's unlikely to wear the pink hairnet (http://www.thinkfish.co.uk/forums/fish-tanks-and-equipment/best-bit-of-kit/msg22377/#msg22377), so we think we're "off the hook" (horrible pun!) until tomorrow.

hi FCFM's fish!
Mr Whippy says Hi... if you can find him (rineloricaria fallax)

sorry to hear about your human... that reminds me to waterchange but gping to midsummers nights drfeam tonight. sorry fishys!

p.s what is your favorite food?

We've been feeling cold for the last week which is why we've been hiding. Those red things with all the legs haven't been worried or those great big round things. But Sue put that tube thing in this morning and stole a lot of our water, then she put the water back, and it's starting to get warm again.

We hope it doesn't start getting cold again.

You are all so lucky, Matt's been quite the idiot recently, we had a night of no sleep the night before last when he forgot to turn the light on, then we had a full day of darkness yesterday - we all wish he'd just put the timer back on for us.  Maybe now it's the weekend and his not doing 11hr days away at "work" (we still don't understand this concept), he might find the time to do this. We had bloodworm last night though which was excellent, we can't believe we were so easily won over again just with a little food!

We overheard that Mr and Mrs Matt are going swimming today, quite frankly we hope they don't drown(!) as they are just completely the wrong shape for swimming and really ought to stick to what their designed to do 

Well we can't stop to chat - the iPad is starting to get a bit wet.

we like the word water change as, we get all funny and the urge to reproduce occurs. got any fishy wine?

Ok, being chased by a net, not liking this much.
Now in a bag and being lifted into something called a "bucket" apparently, and it has gone very dark. If we stay close, mate, we can keep each other comany.
This is quite a lot of movement for a considerable amount of time.
Oh, look, airstone. That feels a bit more comfortable.
Why is this strange person dangling our bag in a new tank?
Look, it's just the two of us. As soon as she opens the bag I say we dart to the big clump of plants and hide. Agreed?
Yep.
Ok, bag opening, ready? Quick, swim like fury.
Phew.
Oh, it's gone darker. Perhaps they have night time here too........
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Getting light. How about we stick together and start having a bit of a look around?
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Look, right the way over the other side of the room, a big tank with more dwarf puffers!
I'm not sure about "dwarf". Look at them, they're massive, but yes, they do look exactly like us, just huge.
Glad I'm not in with them. I'm feeling a bit peckish. Do you think that if we swim to the front of the tank and look adorable when we see someone in the room, like we used to at the other place, that we might get some food?
It's worth a try mate.
Bloodworms! Result! Nom, nom, nom.
Hey mate, do you fancy a day pottering around the tank together and doing some exploring?
Yeah, why not.
  potter  :fishy1:potter

We're not in good form - those humans have interrupted our rest and been up from an early hour, watching that screen in the living room. What can be more important than giving us some peace in the tank?! In her defence, we did hear Mrs FCMF declaring "We can't disturb the fish!" but Mr FCMF was determined to do so.

Thank god there's no fishy union debate today... the catfish country vote stay or we lose our tankmates next door!

Does anyone else get frustrated?

I have a nice tank which is mine, all mine. No-one else has any right to be in here. But this thing keeps crawling over the glass. I flare my gills and fins out to make myself look big and frightening but it takes no notice of me  . It eventually crawls away so I can relax, thank goodness, it's exhausting making myself look frightening.

Then to add insult to that, my human held the black box up near the tank. I know she doesn't like it if I move when she holds the box up so I tried my hardest to move just at the wrong moment. But she seems to think I didn't manage to move every time.


Huh! She's attached something to this post and I can't quite make out what it is......

little black and white thingies that potter around

You calling us little! To be fair we have a guest in our tank called bertha (and her two pals) and our human wants us to breed. You can't make us do anything mate. Then he puts this orange and black thing in that's taken over the cave! At least it's eating the snails!