Marco and Polo here,
It's been about a year since our last update on the Hobo House Fish Tank and quite a bit has changed. First, we've now become addicted to a TV show called 'Tanked' where they build impressive custom fish tanks for people with lots of money (aka. not Marco and Polo). We aspire to one day have enough money to get a 'Tanked' Tank in our future (maybe) bar, The Helix.
We experienced some tragic loses of fish life. This is included 3 Angel Fish (Lucifer, Dante and Azazel), 2 snails (Gary and John Doe), 2 albino catfish (Professor X and Xavier) and an African Dwarf frog (DiNozzo). You could say we hit a rough patch. In all fairness the angel fish were not our fault, the fish store guy neglected to tell us that growing angel fish need to be fed up to 4 times a day. Luckily, one of our angel fish (Dante) kindly donated his body to science. Marco dissected him in Biochem 2 lab for a protein study while Polo tried to not get sick.
When Chief decided to break down the fish tank in the Chem Dept, she asked if we would be willing to 'adopt' two loaches into our fish tank. The loaches were lovingly named Watson and Crick by us when they were bought for the dept fish tank. In case you're not an awesome biochemistry nerd, Watson and Crick are credited with the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
After an acceptable period of mourning, we decided it was okay to bring new fish into the tank. While successfully procrastinating on homework, Marco and Polo took a detour to Petsmart. We decided it was time to add some not-bottom-feeders to the tank. After some minor debating we settled on Tiger Barbs, 4 of them to be exact. You could call it a variety pack of tiger barbs if you wanted, we got a normal Tiger Barb (Hardy), an Albino Tiger Barb( Carroll), a Emerald Tiger Barb (Weston) and an Electric Green GloBarb (Mo). Mo the GloBarb is short for GMO because he's a Genetically Modified Organism. GloFish get their vibrant colors from transplanted genes originating from jellyfish. Hardy, Weston and Carroll are all named after major characters in one of our new favorite shows 'The Following'. We decided to try our luck with a snail again and had great debate on choosing between Heisenberg and Eureka. Through a partial house vote, the blue ivy snail was named Eureka.
As Always, Stay Nerdy!
Marco & Polo
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