popped into the tropical fish shop today.......not to buy owt you understand.....just to look

came out with a 4 inch flagtail catfish.....two sterbai corydoras and two frogs (immediately named Dom and Chique of course ) and the obligatory bag of rocks.....Sophie has an obsession with rocks

we have a 10in catfish so there we got it with the tank 2 years ago and it hasn't stopped growing since

why was that a big mistake I'm confuddled

The big mistake was to think they were only going to LOOK at the fish

I have frogs named after me

I didn't know you could buy frogs (except on street corners of course). Are they different to the ones that just turn up at your pond?

Are they tropical frogs (being bought from a tropical fish shop?)

yes, special 'aquatic' frogs for tropical fishtanks

sadly, one has already 'croaked'
he crawled up onto the filter housing and squeezed himself out through the gap where the wire plugs in.....he made it about three feet across the living room floor before drying out

It's such a shame...can't see anyway to safely plug the gap and so can't have aquatic frogs after all and they were such fun! they run around the tank....they hop and leap in the water....they land on the fish and drive them bonkers.
Now only Dom remains

They've obviously been watching Finding Nemo in the fish shop

I had two clowns and they squeezed themselves into some small decorative shells I'd put in the tank Took me bleeding ages to find them and then had to crack the shells carefully to get them out. I'd emptied everything out the damn tank to find them. No more fishies for me I sold the whole tank cos I ended up with the job of looking after them. Did a good job of it though and had some beauties - even bred some fabbo trops and sold them to a profeshnial Glad to see the back of them though cos a lot of work.

Sorry to hear about the frog

RIP Chique, long live Dom-the-aquatic-frog

I like looking at fishies swimming about, but never wanted to have any. You'll maybe need to get another one so Dom doesn't go looking for Chique when she gets lonely

sorry to hear you've lost one frog already Tara OH used to have a tank of marine fish plus an eel (called Ed ) Ed disappeared one day and we dismantled the whole tank thinking he was stuck in a filter or something, but couldn't find any trace - found him dead a week later at the other end of the (21ft) living room, under a book case

shoulda been called Houdini, obviously.

It reminds me of when one of my bros had snakes and there was one that used to keep escaping - I recall it being found behind the bathroom radiator one day just after I'd been in there having a bath Good job it stayed hidden