So I did a thing!
I bought my first "real" monster fish in five years! The arowana I got a year ago was a gift from friends when I was sick.
I ways wanted a tropical gar, but I was scared to have one both due to the cost back in the day and due to the fact that gars have a propensity for eating silvery minnow looking fish (like ATF), so I avoided gars. Now that I can't have ATF anymore, why not knock off a bucket list fish?
My wife has dubbed this fish Derpalerpagus, shortened to Gus. Pending a name offer from my sun (who gives amazing names like Minty Fins), I'll probably go with this.
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So it came to me.
It came to me, surrounded me and changed me. The revelation was profound and deep. From the deepest, darkest parts of my dad brain came the punniest thing ever to occur to me:
This trop is the dark lord of my tank. He is the first dark lord after the previous dark lords (the ATF) were wiped out. He represents newness and change, and there is only one possible name for him:
Garth Bane.
God this has to give me like 1000 Dad Joke points. I love this so much.
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Thanks to F fenderwai of Monster Aquarium for the hookup! I love this guy!
LOOK AT THIS FACE
I bought my first "real" monster fish in five years! The arowana I got a year ago was a gift from friends when I was sick.
I ways wanted a tropical gar, but I was scared to have one both due to the cost back in the day and due to the fact that gars have a propensity for eating silvery minnow looking fish (like ATF), so I avoided gars. Now that I can't have ATF anymore, why not knock off a bucket list fish?
My wife has dubbed this fish Derpalerpagus, shortened to Gus. Pending a name offer from my sun (who gives amazing names like Minty Fins), I'll probably go with this.
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EDIT-
So it came to me.
It came to me, surrounded me and changed me. The revelation was profound and deep. From the deepest, darkest parts of my dad brain came the punniest thing ever to occur to me:
This trop is the dark lord of my tank. He is the first dark lord after the previous dark lords (the ATF) were wiped out. He represents newness and change, and there is only one possible name for him:
Garth Bane.
God this has to give me like 1000 Dad Joke points. I love this so much.
/EDIT
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Thanks to F fenderwai of Monster Aquarium for the hookup! I love this guy!
LOOK AT THIS FACE
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