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[labrujah]

Me and Jen just had a retarded-people fight about whether I can have her old aquarium which she doesn't plan to use until May or if I should just get a new one because they're like $10.

Because I am a pragmatic kind of person I will admit that any fish I purchase now will probably not be alive in May, so it seems silly to both have aquariums, since we mostly end up just keeping them dusty under a table after all the fish have died (usually takes 2 weeks to 2 months or so).

Anyhow I'm going to Petland soon.

Guess what I found out about seahorses (because I couldn't stop thinking about them after pivovision mentioned them)? You aren't supposed to buy them because they are usually fished from the wild, becuase they are very hard to keep. You have to feed them LIVE brine shrimp twice a day. So you have to hatch these shrimp to feed them, and if you fuck it up, your seahorses are going hungry. Too many little lives depending on me, man. I can't be responsible for a whole step of the food chain like that.

Also, I found out I will be recepting at the New York School of Bartending starting next week a couple nights. This is excellent because it means I get to take the class for free, and then I will be a real mixologist. Try to remain calm, Manny, it'll be a long time before I'm behind a bar for real. In fact, you should be my employment agent, seeing as you've already done all the research.

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[elleseebee.livejournal.com]

If you can learn how to make a lava flow, and if you could please tell me how, I would be very grateful.

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

Somebody was just telling me that he got those free at this one bar, because they made him "go crazy." What's in them, I forget? Something dropped into a beer? With Tabasco?

fish tank

[ignatzmouse.livejournal.com]

that fish tank is totally half mine. which means you can have it but you have to name your fish "jacob" and "jen." and i think the fish tank is haunted also.

Re: fish tank

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, OF COURSE it's haunted by now.

I would definitely name some fishes after you guys, but only the ones that are inexplicably sideways.

Jenny wants to keep it so I guess you and I are just going to have to fend for ourselves in the world of fish husbandry.

Seahorses!

[jourdannex.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of seahorses too. I used to have a salt tank, which my boyfriend quickly dubbed "the death tank" because slowly, no matter what I did, all the fish died. I would have the water checked and they would say it was fine. But still, they all died.

The tank was for relaxation, and there is nothing relaxing about watching fish float upside down. The only fish that lived were the tester fish, the Damsels. Or as they came to be known, the Damsels in Distress.

My Jellyfish was really cool and pinkish blue and he met an untimely death by being SUCKED UP THE FILTER.

So I never got a seahorse because....I didn't want to kill any.

My sister actually had a tank with seahorses and they survived for quite a while. It was just a tank with seahorses in it.

Now you are making me want one. Must stop that feeling.

Re: Seahorses!

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

That is so cool, that you had a jellyfish (disturbing death or no).

Salt tanks seem very labor-intensive. I'm lucky to keep a regular tank from turning into a horrible box of death.

I gave my friend a tiny frog and a tank for his birthday once and the frog ran away the first night and was seen down the hall in the bathtub, then never again.

Re: Seahorses!

[niggerkojak.livejournal.com]

THE SAME SHIT HAPPENED TO ME! I had a saltwater tank and monitored it like a sonofabitch, but every motherfucker who set foot in there died. I went through 3 (yes) seahorses and 2 puffer fish. Finally I tossed the effing deathtrap. I can't have too many bodies on my head.

Re: Seahorses!

[jourdannex.livejournal.com]

'effing deathtrap'. My thoughts exactly.

I have seen in pet/fish stores now they have saltwater you purchase by the gallon, no chemicals needed, so you do not have to mix your own like some scary lab experiment.

I have just not been brave enough to try it after the Death Tank experience.

I swear, people could pour toxic waste into the fish pond and the goldfish would survive it. Well, they are living in L.A. water, I guess it's not a stretch.

[manythespaceman.livejournal.com]

i donno...i have pretty high standards, and only frequent classy joints. you'd have to pour a MEAN old guiness....but maybe the dymphia's might have ye.....

[labrujah.livejournal.com]

Hey, I've already mastered the most important part: "You're CUT OFF! Hahaa."

[pivovision]

I think what I am going to do is drop out of my life and go volunteer at the aquarium. They have it already set up. You know. That way I won't unwitting kill anything. Yeah.