holy shit. what the hell just happened? Do I really have to wait until fall to find out what's going on with Alias? This is not good at all. Just in case someone hasn't seen it, is watching it on ABC at 10, I won't say much. But holy shit.

In other news, I worked my last shift at MCRI today, it was a trade I had done to get Easter off to visit my Grannie. So that was pretty cool, Sundays are easily the easiest day at work, and overall every day is pretty easy.

Also, remember the walking catfish? I'll try to find the link to that post, it was in March I think. Anyway, I bought 2 of them because they were small, sort of ugly, and hang from their noses at the top of the aquarium. I'll admit, I don't check my fish numbers very often. I guess I take for granted that they'll all be there, day to day. I do check them for stress and disease etc, I'm a decent fish-mom. Yesterday, Calleen, Travis and I went to Pets Unlimited, where I got said catfish. I want to show Calleen how much bigger mine are than the ones in the store, but surprise, the one left in the store is enormous. Really, really big. I'll say..7-8 inches and a good size around. Odd looking critters. Anyway, so I say to the guy, wow, mine aren't that big, and he says oh really? They will be! I'm like, oh crap, really? He says, it depends how much they're eating. Are they bothering any of my other fish? I say no, I don't think so, they mostly just hide in the cave. Wow, he says...they normally eat anything they can get their mouths around (which, due to the increasing size of these bastards, is getting to be a lot of my fish. I start to worry.). I say wow, nobody told me that, but I haven't noticed any problems yet. One of them is probably 6 inches long and pretty fat, they have big mouths like...pacman or something.
So I go home, and to my shock and horror, I have NO NEONS left. Not one. I do, Calleen, have the little orange glowlight tetra that I got from you in like, 3rd year. But no neon tetras. I am saddened. I mean, those guys hide all the time; there are...were...a lot of smaller fish in my tank, so I hadn't noticed. I notice now. I notice later that the bastards have also eaten my favorite baby fish, a little orange platy who was one of only 2 that my now dead orange platy mom had. The other one lives, but is orange and black and sort of ugly. *sigh*
Grant offered to euthanize the mo' fo's for me, but I felt bad, even though they're cannibals and clearly cannot continue living in my community aquarium. I take them out, or Grant does, he being the engineer comes up with a way to catch them, they're big and fast, and I didn't want a repeat of the algae eater on the floor incident. I put them in my 3 gallon unheated tank for the night, and bring them back to PetsUnlimited today. The people there are like, who sold you the fish? I don't know, any more than when I go to any other store I remember the person's name. So whatever, I tell them that yes, I am sure that I told the guy what size tank I have and who lives in it, and that there was no mention of the size or violent nature of these fish. Live and learn I suppose.

Today's moral: Don't buy pets at super-sized pet stores..
If you must, buy your food and supplies there, but not the pets. Spend the extra dollar and go to a reputable pet store. That's my two cents. More like a loonie I guess, sorry about the length!