Chihuahua6
Premium Member
When you live in the south you will eventually meet a Palmetto bug. They will every so often want to come join you in your home for a little visit. This usually happens at night.
What is a Palmetto bug you ask? Basically they're giant roaches that fly. I know, totally disgusting.
This evening I was trying to enjoy the olympics closing ceremony that I Tivo'd from earlier in the evening. After numerous interruptions from the kids and the dogs I take a seat in front of my 29 gallon anemone tank. I recently added three large RBTAs from a fellow reefer. I figured I would gaze for a moment into the tank watching the anemones sway in the current but then I see a large dark object crawling up the wall from behind my tank.
It crawls. I shut off the tank light and run and get the roach spray. I come back and it's on the cabinet of the tank. I give it a few sprays. The damn thing crawls up the glass of the tank. Now I can't spray it without getting spray into the water. Then it falls in. Its legs are in the air kicking frantically. Then I realize the spray that I shot it with is now in the tank. Last night I accidentally killed my prized Pyramid Butterflyfish. Now I'm thinking these fish and anemones may suffer the same fate. I can't net it out because it just creeps me out too much. Okay maybe it will drown. It doesn't.
Then it crawls up the arm of the clip on light. I can't swat the light. I might break it. So I turn the light on to hopefully burn it to death with the heat of the halide. As it heats up the bug feels it. It ends up falling back into the tank to do the backstroke again. It gets back onto the light and gets so hot it falls off but now onto the floor where it slowly crawls across toward the family room. I run to the bookcase and grab a hardcover heavy book. It's a nice interior design book. I have no time. If it makes it behind the tv I'll lose it so I drop the book on top of it.
The book will remain there all night. Even if my Belgian Malinois decides he needs something to destroy and chews it. I can't even get that close to a dead one. Pretty pathetic huh?
I did put some fresh carbon into the filter and all inhabitants seem to be doing well.
I just had to share my gross creepy story. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
What is a Palmetto bug you ask? Basically they're giant roaches that fly. I know, totally disgusting.
This evening I was trying to enjoy the olympics closing ceremony that I Tivo'd from earlier in the evening. After numerous interruptions from the kids and the dogs I take a seat in front of my 29 gallon anemone tank. I recently added three large RBTAs from a fellow reefer. I figured I would gaze for a moment into the tank watching the anemones sway in the current but then I see a large dark object crawling up the wall from behind my tank.
It crawls. I shut off the tank light and run and get the roach spray. I come back and it's on the cabinet of the tank. I give it a few sprays. The damn thing crawls up the glass of the tank. Now I can't spray it without getting spray into the water. Then it falls in. Its legs are in the air kicking frantically. Then I realize the spray that I shot it with is now in the tank. Last night I accidentally killed my prized Pyramid Butterflyfish. Now I'm thinking these fish and anemones may suffer the same fate. I can't net it out because it just creeps me out too much. Okay maybe it will drown. It doesn't.
Then it crawls up the arm of the clip on light. I can't swat the light. I might break it. So I turn the light on to hopefully burn it to death with the heat of the halide. As it heats up the bug feels it. It ends up falling back into the tank to do the backstroke again. It gets back onto the light and gets so hot it falls off but now onto the floor where it slowly crawls across toward the family room. I run to the bookcase and grab a hardcover heavy book. It's a nice interior design book. I have no time. If it makes it behind the tv I'll lose it so I drop the book on top of it.
The book will remain there all night. Even if my Belgian Malinois decides he needs something to destroy and chews it. I can't even get that close to a dead one. Pretty pathetic huh?
I did put some fresh carbon into the filter and all inhabitants seem to be doing well.
I just had to share my gross creepy story. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Just a bug.
