Spoiled Buggers

It's a little thing called patience, and it paid off! I have a great job, and I can finally spend all my money on useless things again! With the help of DirecTV, I got to buy a whole home for little hermit crabs, a number of new shirts, and some awesome extras like a spritzer bottle for the plants and hermits and a filter for the fishies. I'm still planning on getting a new tank for the lil buggers. They're cramped in a 3 gallon tank, and they desperately need a larger home. Poor little things.

Since I've never introduced them before... :

• Fire Ball.

My little Betta fish that lives in a small bowl on my desk. He has a plant and colorful marbles that match his color. Very friendly and loves feeding time.

• Slash, Spock, and Namine

Cardinal Tetras that live in the 3 gallon tank. They have a new filter and bubbles to play in. They are the quick ones in the tank and always enjoy attention. Slash has a small jut in his reflecting stripe. Spock has a spot on his second lower fin and also named in regards to Star Trek which was on of the popular movies at the time. Namine has no identifying features and so was named Namine from Kairi's Nobody in Kingdom Hearts.

• Sun Ray, Cooper, and Trooper

Guppies that live in the 3 gallon tank. They enjoy the bubbles a lot. It's Sun Ray's favorite. He was named for his coloring which resembles - you guessed it - the rays from the sun. We call him Ray for short. Cooper was a last minute addition to the tank after an unfortunate incident win the PH which resulted in two loses (RIP Squirt the Guppy and Alba the Albino Cory). When we were bringing him home from the store he was pooping in the bag so we were going to call him Pooper, but instead disguised his name so no one but the readers would know. Trooper didn't have a name before the PH incident, but never once acted out of sorts, so I dubbed him a trooper: There you have it.

• Trouble

Cory fish that loves to race to top of the 3 gallon tank for air and continue playing around on the bottom of the tank. He's constantly looking for food, but when I toss him a pellet, he hardly cares. Seems as though he just likes to stay busy.

• Crush and Jeffrey

The newest additions to my little pet. These hermit crabs love to crawl and climb around. Crush is the bigger Hermit who changed shells the second I brought him home, and who is know buried deep in the jungle bed molting - I can only assume. Jeffrey was named after the you know what from Get Him to the Greek. His huge personality for such a little guy definitely set him apart from the rest.