Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: cheap stuff Summary: Goats are more fun, but much more work, and not as restful Message-ID: <21990@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 4 May 88 23:31:24 GMT References: <3787@gryphon.CTS.COM> <5690@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Distribution: alt Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 23 >>If it blows up and dumps the fish on the floor at 2am, it's a crisis very >>different from when you have three or a dozen tanks. > >Have to disagree here. Unless you are a professional type, a blown tank is no >more pleasant for a multi-tank family than for a single-tank family.... I didn't mean this *quite* so literally. What I meant was, I still get broken up over fish dying. Not the financial loss, or even the hassle of fetching out this dead thing and deciding what to do with it. I mean, I take it personally, like losing a friend. (Don't tell me about it. I grew up in Iowa, where dead animals are all part of the food chain. And I'll eat seafood 3 meals a day, if I can. It's different when you're supposed to be keeping 'em alive.) So I am very protective of my two little tanks, and lavish far more attention on them than my fellow fish-keeping friends do on their tanks. >Goats! Maybe that is what I should raise! Naw, I've done that. Fish are lots easier. Don't take as much room, don't have to drag 'em across two counties to breed, don't go into heat for that matter. And if you think a dead fish smells bad, try a live male goat. But if you do, please stay outside.... :-)