Live like a crayfish

The Big Sea

2011-04-18T14:22:00.000+08:00

Cray Cray has returned to the big sea where there is an endless supply of peas and carrots. And corn.

Rest in peace.

18 months old

2010-10-20T00:56:00.000+08:00

I am now 18 months old.

I STILL hate clean water.

I STILL nip the plastic sucky thingy.

I can now lift the logs in the tank.

I eat more than ever, because although the instructions say "One to two tablets per day", she gives me six or seven. But it's all good, cuz I'm always hungry anyway.

I can't stop cutting the plastic plant. I LOVE IT BABEH!

My biological clock is ticking.

My crazy owner still sings to me.. Lucky i can't hear. How do I know she's singing? Looking at her lips.

Here is a messsage to my owner:

You will NEVER EVER SEE ME MOULT! HA HA HA, you fool. Feed me all you want. I will NEVER moult in front of you. HEH HEH. See la, make my water so clean for what. Make me eat the stupid salt by accident.. do you know it tastes like %$#^&?

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A crayfish story

2009-09-18T10:25:00.010+08:00

So I wanted to wake Cray Cray up to take photos of her. She usually sleeps on her side!

Not happy to be woken up.

At first she thought it it was feeding time because I dropped some food in.. Just to lure her out. hehe

Squeezing throught the narrow passageway...

Climbing onto the wood.. And then she realized that it was another photography session.

ÄHHH THE FLASH! THE LIGHTS! RETREAT! RETREAT!

"Don't you ever do that again!"

"You stay away now..."

And then I kept insisting on taking pictures and she got pretty annoyed....

She climbed right out...

And then up,

up to the platform where she knew I would want her to go to..

And then...

she cast me the evil eye just before

"Stay away you crayzee womannnnnnn!!!"

"Ha.....

....HAAAAIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

And then she flew right at me!

(kind of. but she didn't hit the tank or anything.. Just gave me a shock! haha!)

After giving me a piece of her mind, she went back to her cosy corner and took a nap.

We're currently not on talking terms.

Note: This is a true story.

A blessing and a curse

2009-09-17T21:19:00.002+08:00

One of the guppies (Yellow tail) is pregnant! I can confirm this with an ultrasound. Ok la, it just looks bigger than the other female so I assume she is. But I can gurantee 90% that's she's not just fat.

I've been messing round with the layout of the aquarium again.. I've put the piece of wood back into the water after i did a change on Tuesday. BUT. I realised that it discolours the water, and makes it yellow-ish even though i JUST cleaned the water. Augh.

But no bother. with more places for Cray to hide, and because there are lots of obstacles, it's harder to get at the fish...

Or so I thought.

for some reason, after I changed the water, the fish seemed to lose all fear of Cray cray and they swam right into her claws. I was just staring when i witnessed this strange and dangerous phenomenon. Two of them had their tails snipped off (well, half of it anyway).. But hey can still swim so it's ok.

Ah. Life. How marvelous.

Baby pictures!

2009-09-08T17:41:00.002+08:00

She's only a month old in these. and I used my handphone so the quality may not be that high.

But you'll also notice that the tank setup changes quite a bit.... That's because I was still busy adjusting the setting, seeing what she likes and what she doesn't to make her home as comfy as possible. :)

TINY!

Oh cray....

2009-09-08T17:37:00.001+08:00

I wish I was a crayfish
trudging on the bottom
I'd eat a fish occassionally,
sometimes i'd treat them rotten.

I wish I was crayfish,
then i won't have to go to school
and do stupid assignments
yeah. that's real cool

I wish i was a crayfish
Then i won't shop so much
I'd have an algae wafer
And that's enough

I wish I was a crayfish
Cuz i can't write poetry.

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Light and new friends

2009-09-01T22:35:00.003+08:00

My only surviving prawn* has mysteriously disappeared, along with my neon tetra.
Ok, so maybe it's not so mysterious, given the fact that I have been feeding Cray Cray a lot less.

I've decided to feed her once a day instead of twice, and she's a lot more active in the day now (during feeding time) because she KNOWS that it's all she's going to get for the day.

Since their disappearance, I have decided to protect the lives of my remaining fish, so i added in new fish**! I now have three more platies (who look like Molly but one is white with black spots, and the other is black with white spots, and a white one) and three fry.. I don't know exactly what they'd grow into just yet.. how exciting! Hopefully they'll get a chance to grow fully, or at least, don't disappear before I know what they become.

Ok, so that's it for now.

*The prawn story will be told some other time. it's too evil for words.
** Feeders from my father's aquarium meant for some bigger fish.

Intro by Cray Cray

2009-08-21T13:46:00.000+08:00

Hello. My name is Cray Cray, and I am a crayfish. I know I was picked because I was the smallest cutest and sweetest looking little girl in the entire tank.

I've escaped twice (on the same day!) before, and I've moulted three times since I've been home. I can get quite stubborn sometimes, but if there's some food involved, maybe we can negotiate something.

I hate bright light and people knocking on the glass, unlike those mindless twits I share my home with.

My housemates (sort of)

They're only my housemates because I have to share a tank with them. But I don't actually have to, you know. Most of my housemates are just snacks waiting to happen.

My oldest housemates are Molly, who's really actually a platy... Guppers, a sadly deformed feeder guppy. For some reason, the two of them have been with me since I was a day old, and they're almost like family. And you don't eat family.

And then there are the newer additions (well, the ones that survived my sudden night hunting frenzies), Blue female guppy, Yellow female guppy, Yellow male guppy ( btw those are their names), A neon tetra, Neony (whose only other other existing friend I ate a few weeks ago. i got hungry, okay!), And a cherry barb, Barby.

Well. I guess that's it from me for now.

Back to the tube!
Cray Cray