What Makes Us Want To Keep Living Stuff In Glass Tanks?

[Tolak]

Midlife crisis. It's more respectable than fast cars & wild woman.

 

[darknirvana217]

The thrill of all the exotic species.

 

[LauraFrog]

You know, now that I think of it we're a bunch of weirdos.

We clear useful stuff out of our house to make room for an expensive cabinet to house an expensive glass box.
We put expensive decorations in the expensive glass box.
We put tap water in it.
Then we add expensive liquids, powders and tablets so that it's not tap water anymore but some undrinkable wet stuff.
We buy expensive kits, chemicals and devices to take ammonia out and put oxygen in.
Then we buy expensive scaly things that put ammonia in and take oxygen out.
We put expensive smelly powders, pellets, flakes and wriggly things in to keep the scaly things alive and making foul smelling brown slime.
And THEN we go to great lengths to remove the foul smelling brown slime.

As for me? Humans aren't good enough for me. I talk to my fish, I have put a lot of effort into hand-taming livebearers, which it must be said aren't the most intelligent of fish. I name the ones I can tell apart, and I have cried myself to sleep over the death of a special fish - more than once. My frogs are hand-tame and pressure trained. My cat sleeps in my bed. I cut a hole in the roof so the possums can get in and out easily, I leave cracked corn and oats for the wallabies and kangaroos, and I once trained a wild butcherbird to fly to my hand.
I am vaguely aware of larger humans living in the house.

 

[Birdie]

Because it fits in nicely with my other sad and tragic hobbies of gardening and allotment-keeping