micstarz
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I can't believe I did this and I can't believe that it's working out. Two days ago, I went LFS'ing and I found out that one of the stores had 6 cuttlefish in. I got kicked out of their shop for taking pictures of them. Today I went back and a few of them were left. They cost $12.5 US each (which is considered above the average price for many saltwater animals in Hong Kong) and one of them was tiny, about an inch long. The rest of them were 3 inchers. Since I had live food and all the rest of it ready at home, I decided to buy it.
I looked in my wallet. I didn't have enough. I was $7.8 HKD short. (Exactly 1 US dollar). I couldn't believe it. And I found it even more amazing that the clerk wouldn't let me have it for $7.8 less than the listed price.
I went back to another shop and try to sell back two crayfish I had bought to feed my mantis shrimp for $8 that I needed to get the cuttle. However, they didn't want to trade back but they lent me the money that I needed because I buy there every week and the woman there is very, very kind. I went back, tried to justify buying the cuttle from such an unfriendly shop (I told myself that the cuttle might die if I didn't buy it and that I didn't want a fool other than myself to kill it which is wishful thinking)
Anyway, I got home, acclimatized the cuttle and then waited for a while. Then I put in a shore shrimp 10 minutes later. I didn't expect it to be noticed at all. However, much to my surprise, it caught it and ate it. That's what I'm giddy with joy from, and that's why I'm typing nonsensically and rambling. While I was typing, it also got spooked and inked. The ink kind of stuck together in a clump like phlegm in a swimming pool and I sucked it out with a syringe.
Thanks for listening to me vvery bad account (made worse by bad grammar, bad phrasing, spelling errors and wierdness).
I have one question right now.
Do cuttles want flow?
Should I keep the water in it's breeder box as stationary as possible or should I give him some water flow? (A very small trickle of water spilling onto a plastic card then spilling into his breeder box)
I looked in my wallet. I didn't have enough. I was $7.8 HKD short. (Exactly 1 US dollar). I couldn't believe it. And I found it even more amazing that the clerk wouldn't let me have it for $7.8 less than the listed price.
I went back to another shop and try to sell back two crayfish I had bought to feed my mantis shrimp for $8 that I needed to get the cuttle. However, they didn't want to trade back but they lent me the money that I needed because I buy there every week and the woman there is very, very kind. I went back, tried to justify buying the cuttle from such an unfriendly shop (I told myself that the cuttle might die if I didn't buy it and that I didn't want a fool other than myself to kill it which is wishful thinking)
Anyway, I got home, acclimatized the cuttle and then waited for a while. Then I put in a shore shrimp 10 minutes later. I didn't expect it to be noticed at all. However, much to my surprise, it caught it and ate it. That's what I'm giddy with joy from, and that's why I'm typing nonsensically and rambling. While I was typing, it also got spooked and inked. The ink kind of stuck together in a clump like phlegm in a swimming pool and I sucked it out with a syringe.
Thanks for listening to me vvery bad account (made worse by bad grammar, bad phrasing, spelling errors and wierdness).
I have one question right now.
Do cuttles want flow?
Should I keep the water in it's breeder box as stationary as possible or should I give him some water flow? (A very small trickle of water spilling onto a plastic card then spilling into his breeder box)
Thanks. Looks like I was doing it right, then.
