Murph has been promoted

Sep 21, 2006 11:33

Some may remember that I inherited a pair of blue gourami fish last summer from my friend Amy before she moved to Arkansas, who I named Connor and Murph. The little guys have been quite entertaining, as they are fond of "kissing" (swimming toward each other and bumping mouths -- there's actually a variety of gouramis called "kissing gouramis," which are pinkish colored and grow to be about a foot long). Well, Amy also warned me that they'd had them for several years, and though she didn't know about gourami life expectancy, I shouldn't be surprised if they died soon. Sure enough, a couple weeks ago I came home to find Connor, the bigger and apparently older of the two, dead at the bottom of the aquarium.

So Murph was left all by himself. It's been really depressing to see him swimming around in the tank alone. There's no one for him to kiss any more. :( And so, Tuesday night after watching him be so pathetic for a while, I resolved to use my Wednesday afternoon to go to PetCo and find him some tankmates.

I spent a while yesterday morning looking around on the internet to find out what types of fish were compatible and made the trek to PetCo with a prioritized list. My first choice was more gouramis because clearly they can get along, and dang it, I wanted to see some more fish kissing each other. Thankfully, the store not only had gouramis, but several different varieties. I didn't get the pink "kissing gouramis" because they get too big for the tank I have and have a tendency to be aggressive. So I got six others to come and be Murph's new friends. I'll eventually take some pictures of the fish that are actually mine, but here are some representative pictures of the types I got, along with their new names.



I got two more blue gouramis, who are still pretty young and not full-grown yet. Murph is about four inches long, and these two guys are about half his size. Or should I say, the fish formerly known as Murph. Since he's the big guy now, he's been promoted to being called Il Duce. The two new blue gouramis are now Connor and Murph.



I also got three golden gouramis like this one. They're also juveniles, and they, too, are supposed to grow to about four inches in length. I named them Smecker, Greenly, and Duffy. :)



And finally, I got a little guy like this one, a dwarf flame gourami. Don't think he gets quite as big, but man is he pretty, this irridescent orangy-pink color. His name is Rocco.

The cats are loving them, by the way. Mouse is positively captivated, and I think she might have spent the entire night sitting on the floor in front of the aquarium and watching them.

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