there's a THING in my tank!

**mooncat** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:05 pm

Skipped downstairs to put new friend in tank ... goldfish ate it as soon as it hit the water! Gutted! Shocked

**Bwompus** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:09 pm

mooncat wrote:

Skipped downstairs to put new friend in tank ... goldfish ate it as soon as it hit the water! Gutted! Shocked

I'm sorry...really I am..but the way you worded that.....I just about spewed coffee all over my keyboard. lol!

My sides hurt.

**mooncat** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:14 pm

oh, my poor hog louse - it took quite a lot of chewing too! I kept hoping that the goldfish would spit him back out but he just chewed him up for ages.

Greedy thing, it got a spirulina tablet stuck in it's mouth last week, thought it might die!

The humour is not lost on me though I do feel really guilty!

**Bwompus** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:16 pm

LOL!! Thank you for my "laugh of the day".

**mooncat** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:24 pm

sure my hog-louse-in-heaven is pleased his horrible death cheered you up! Were you an Ancient Roman in a previous life?
Laughing

(what's that supposed to mean? who writes about cyclops on a fish forum?)

**Bwompus** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:39 pm

mooncat wrote:

sure my hog-louse-in-heaven is pleased his horrible death cheered you up! Were you an Ancient Roman in a previous life?
Laughing

(what's that supposed to mean? who writes about cyclops on a fish forum?)

...I was a Mongol Wink

Just the way you worded it cracked me up.

In Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, a cyclops cyclops

(pronounced /ˈsaɪklɒps/; Greek: Κύκλωψ, Kuklōps), is a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of its forehead. The classical plural is cyclopes cyclops

(pronounced /saɪˈkloʊpiːz/; Greek: Κύκλωπες, Kuklōpes), though the conventional plural cyclopses cyclops

is also used in English. The name is widely thought to mean "circle-eyed".[

Hesiod described one group of cyclopes cyclops

and the epic poet Homer described another, though other accounts have also been written by the playwright Euripides, poet Theocritus and Roman epic poet Virgil. In Hesiod's Theogony, Zeus releases three Cyclopes cyclops

, the sons of Uranus and Gaia, from the dark pit of Tartarus. They provide Zeus' thunderbolt, Hades' helmet of invisibility, and Poseidon's trident, and the gods use these weapons to defeat the Titans. In a famous episode of Homer's Odyssey, the hero Odysseus encounters the Cyclops cyclops

Polyphemus, the son of Poseidon and a nereid (Thoosa), who lives with his fellow cyclops

Cyclopes

in a distant country. The connection between the two groups has been debated in antiquity and by modern scholars. It is upon Homer's account that Euripides and Virgil based their accounts of the mythical creatures.
I bet they ate fish while on their journey!
Thank you Wikipedia.

Hope it made you smile! cyclops

**mooncat** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:47 pm

Thanks for the re-cap! I did Classical Mythology for the first year of my degree!

Well, done Wikipedia! I give you a 2:1, would have been a first but you wrote less than 1500 words, so I have to mark you down!

I wouldn't say "cyclopses", it's common and vulgar, like saying "fishies" instead of fish!

Laughing

**Bwompus** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:49 pm

**mooncat** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:55 pm

**mooncat** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:53 pm

PS, just found this whilst looking for more info about my dear departed water hog louse ... it's a list of THINGS that people sometimes find in their tanks, good for identifying them quickly and deciding whether they should stay or go...

http://www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/277805-hitchhikers-in-freshwater-tanks-ponds/

**Angi-N-Wayne** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Thu Jun 24, 2010 11:11 am

Thanks for that link mooncat!! I'm sure most of us will find it useful at sometime or another, although the pic of the planaria looks nothing like the things we had once lol

Angi

**Bwompus** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:53 pm

Thanks for the link Mooncat!!

**mooncat** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:27 pm

no probs - never realised there were so many things to look out for! Wink

**Doug** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Fri Jun 25, 2010 3:07 am

You would be amazed at how many things call water home that are not fish. In my samples i get upwards of 30 species from a single sweep of my net through some plants!

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**mooncat** · Subject: Re: there's a THING in my tank! Fri Jun 25, 2010 9:26 am

wow, that's a lot! I expect to find them in a stream, my 7 year old usually finds about 4 or 5 different species when we go pond dipping, but just didn't expect them in my tank!