Fish are crap pets.
My Mrs decided she wanted to keep tropical fish, so with misgivings I bought her the tank and all the other stuf we HAD TO HAVE, which only cost about a million quid.

She chose a dozen beutifully frilled and lavishly coloured fish from the pet shop, which were duly added to the tank and swam around pleasingly.

So far so good.

day 2. Fish look a little ragged. Can't quite work out what it is, but they're not as pristine as yesterday.

Days 3 - 10. Fish gradually eating each other. Six of them dead, found floating with lumps out of them.

Day 11. Down to one motley looking Nemo like object.

Day 12. Nemo found floating on top of tank.

That was the almost 2 week fish experiment. Tank went into garage until I dropped a torque wrench on it a couple of months later and it all went down the dump.
(username failed moderation, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:28, 2 replies)

Yeah
You 'dropped' the torque wrench on it. That's what you told the missus, anyway...
(Sir Itchalot has a very self-referential signature, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:50, closed)

lol
a cunning and well thought out plan. i may 'borrow' the idea ;)
(shamen Geekius Maximus, Wed 4 May 2011, 14:58, closed)

can i have it when you're done

(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Wed 4 May 2011, 15:30, closed)

you can't put a full load of fish in the tank immediatley
it needs to be cycled properly, it 's easy to do and there is plenty of information and advice out there.
The shop shouldn't have sold you the fish without finding out if you had a clue what you were doing.
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Wed 4 May 2011, 15:32, closed)

yeah you murderer :-)

(Monkeystrumpet monkey. Monkey, MONKEY!!!, Wed 4 May 2011, 15:35, closed)

Fishicide!

( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 4 May 2011, 16:27, closed)

Whatever
Was nothing to do with me, I thought it was a stupid idea anyway.
(username failed moderation, Thu 5 May 2011, 8:21, closed)