Electric Mayhem: Sparky's Log

[Sakura8]

:) Yes, I do. I actually haven't even used the thick, shoulder-length gloves I bought. I'm just really careful to work in a different part of the tank than he's in. And he's not aggressive. It's not like he charges out of his tunnel and tries to zap my hand.

[teeneythebetta]

Originally Posted by Olympia

D: poor minnow.

Minnow: alright! Yea bro headbutt time!!!
Sparky: oh my, oh no, please stay out of my comfort zone!!! .. -zap- .. Oops...
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Poor minnow.

But ROFL when I read sparky's line, I read it with the voice of pinnochio from the shrek movies. xD

[Chesherca]

What an adorably cool (and borderline frightening) little friend you have there! I love him! I think you'll be having quite a bit of fun learning about your new electrically charged buddy. . . poor minnow!

[Sakura8]

Teeney, haha. :D

Chesherca, thanks. :) I do feel sorry for the minnow. Things looked like they were going so well. But I was going to have to take it to a pet store, where it almost certainly would have gone straight into the feeder fish tank so I guess the end was the same. :(

The irony is after I got the minnow out of the tank with the black gravel and into a tank with sand, it lightened up and started to look really pretty.

[dbooknook]

Yay! Go minnow and Sparky!

[Romad]

Sparky - 1

Minnow - 0

[Sakura8]

So true, Romad. :D

[MaisyDawgThirteen]

I'm confused, is the minnow dead, or just in shock?


LOL Romad!!

[Sakura8]

:( Unfortunately, the poor minnow did die. I feel really bad about that.

[Sakura8]

So something interesting happened when I went to feed Sparky. I plopped in his giant sinking wafers and they fell down between his tunnel and the side of the tank. I thought he might have trouble getting to them so I reached in to move them and he charged out of his tunnel and headbutted my hand.

Now the funny thing is I don't know if he even shocked me or if he just headbutted me. If he did shock me, it was so light I didn't feel it. Or, if I did feel it, I didn't even recognize it as a shock. Weird.

*eyes hand going for the food* "Get your hand away from mah food, woman!"

He then proceeded to snarf his food down and completely ignore me while I reached in again to fix the heater that he knocked out of its holder. o.O

I don't get this fish.