My wife is a bit fish keeper. She has a 25 gallon (but the tall, rounded type) tank on the main floor with an assortment of freshwater fish in it. My favourite resident of her tank was a red shrimp named "Claw". He was pretty elusive and a Claw sighting was a rare treat. One day Claw was just sitting there out ion the open - very rare for Claw. After looking a little more closely, Claw was a little more pink than red. Claw was dead.
She also has a 25-gallon tank of newts. Four are in there I think. 3 are firebelly newts, and one is a paddletail newt. She has also had a green newt at some point, as well as a very cool-looking, orange, Oregon/California newt. He succumbed to some rare bloat problem after a few years, but he was pretty awesome. One of the newts in that tank has been around since 1995 - much longer than I expected any newt to live.
She has always wanted to get a mudskipper. Those are stupid-looking, buggy-eyed amphibian things that just kind of sit there and don't really do much. I know that it is only a matter of time until she gets one. Her love of newts and mudskippers is a bit strange because she's always been a bit of a girly-girl with everything else. Except for her amphibians.
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