Fish of the day

A couple of months ago a colleague at work suggested that it would be nice to get an office aquarium, suggesting that the fish would bring a calming effect to the office and would be a nice thing for everyone to get involved in - kind of an ‘en-masse fish-adoption’ event.

So we all chipped in for a second-hand aquarium (which one poor work pal had to spend a whole day cleaning out as it was soooo disgustingly dirty - honestly, we paid 90 quid for this tank and the cheeky mare selling it couldn’t even be bothered to clean it up a bit for us!) and for the past couple of weeks the fishies’ new home has been sitting at the end of the office, full of water, waiting for its new inhabitants. Its actually been quite amusing to see visitors to the office standing watching the stray leaves from the aquatic plants float around the tank thinking that they are fish … the leaves not the visitors!

But anyway… today was the day to go fishing. For the size of the tank apparently we are allowed 32.5cm worth of fish! (Erm ok… are we supposed to take our rulers to the shop and measure them or something?). So three of us trundled off at lunchtime to pick out the new fishy members of our team and, after deciding that we should get four fish to start with, we finally chose the different ones that we wanted - this might sound like an easy task but believe me its not - there are some really wacky looking fishies out there!

So after waiting ages to get served, the fish-man told us that we couldn’t actually get our four new friends today, apparently we have to introduce them one at a time… childish I know but I did sulk a bit at this and tried to persuade fish-man that taking two wouldn’t hurt but he was not for budging

Well, we got fishy number one back to the office and have introduced him to his new surroundings. He deffo loves the extra aquatic trees I bought for him and although I haven’t seen him swim through the rose-slate tunnel I contructed (I’m a designer, it’s second nature to try and make stuff look pwetty!) I’m sure he’ll be very happy in his new home. It will be much better next week when we can go back for number two though so he’s not lonely.

And the names… well, after great deliberation we’ve called him Juan (pronounced one… geddit!), next week we’ll pick up Dos (deux); Trey (or tres) will be in week three and finally we’ll get to bring home ferocious-looking little Fear (vier) 

Haha, we’ve just noticed the names… Juan, Deux… remind anyone of a film title? A Fish Called … !!!