Can I eat them?

No Spike they are for watching silly cat.

Moved a an fifty gallon aquarium last weekend. Tons of fun. I could not have done it with out JFM or my mom. The particular aquarium has been in my family all of my life. It has been running at my mothers house for several years without anything in it. This may seem strange that someone might do this but I guess is you knew the story then it would not seem so weird. 

Spike helped of course. Here he is inspecting the fish tank 

buckets and equipment. Must have a nice fishy smell. (he love fish of course)

Back to the story, mom had the tank set up. It had very nice tetras hanging around minding their own business but there was an infiltrator! 

The fresh water snail!

 Not the golden big kind that are the size of a quarter, the little bitty kind that look like rocks. Which is exactly how they got there. The were snuck in! 

My mom blames the real plants she tried to maintain, which died. (she also has trouble with the land kind, they often die) 

Its not that she did not like the snails, they just reproduced so much that here were hundreds of them. She would spend hours trying to get every last on out of the tank. She stood on stools to reach them, she used snail-be-gone stuff. She would spring up from the table and reach into the tank...this went on for years.  Eventually the fish began to die. Not sure from what but they eventually were gone. She tried freeing them, well the rocks from the tank. 

Still snails. 

Eventually they all died, I guess from lack of food. No fish went back into the tank for year until...

The pink convicts:

Pink Convicts are aggressive cichlid fish from South America. They might eat the fish you have and each other. Mom hates cichlid. Mostly cause they watch you. This offends  her. 

A friend of hers found out that she had no fish in her tank and decided that she had some of hers. Apparently the breed easily. Eek!

My mom did not know how to say no since she didn't have any fish. How could she say no?

 And now I have the tank so I own them and want them gone to.  These tine pink fish have been eyeballing the cleaning catfish and alga eaters. 

I would prefer some nice Danios and tetras. So I have posted them on Freecycle. They could be yours!

                                                       Here is spike watching his cat tv!