Wicked Cool Bird Story.

OLS · 03-17-2011, 10:17 AM

I had a fish in college, it was a bream that I caught one day that was SO COLORFUL. I discovered through
observation that a fishes coloration increases dramatically when it is about to feed and after it feeds.
I had a chunk of tubifex worms I was going to feed it as I always did, and I got a phone call, put the tubifex
chunk on some masking tape I had matrixed across the top to discourage doofus "leaping out ideas" on the fishes
behalf. And then I hear this splash. The food chunk was gone and the fish was munching away and all colored up.
After I hung up the phone, (cause they used to hang on walls in my day) I put another chunk on the tape,
and watched amazed as it jumped out of the water and tapped that tape with it's nose and then ate the
ball of food that fell in the water. From that day on, he was the dormitory sensation til he just got too big for
that 29 gallon tank. But I gave him to another aquarist that promised to continue taking good care of it in his
55 until it had to go back to nature, or MIT, whichever it decided upon.

03-17-2011, 10:17 AM	#6
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: Wicked Cool Bird Story. I had a fish in college, it was a bream that I caught one day that was SO COLORFUL. I discovered through observation that a fishes coloration increases dramatically when it is about to feed and after it feeds. I had a chunk of tubifex worms I was going to feed it as I always did, and I got a phone call, put the tubifex chunk on some masking tape I had matrixed across the top to discourage doofus "leaping out ideas" on the fishes behalf. And then I hear this splash. The food chunk was gone and the fish was munching away and all colored up. After I hung up the phone, (cause they used to hang on walls in my day) I put another chunk on the tape, and watched amazed as it jumped out of the water and tapped that tape with it's nose and then ate the ball of food that fell in the water. From that day on, he was the dormitory sensation til he just got too big for that 29 gallon tank. But I gave him to another aquarist that promised to continue taking good care of it in his 55 until it had to go back to nature, or MIT, whichever it decided upon.