The past few days I've been trying to catch our blue tang, unsuccessfully. She broke out with ich a few days ago (sigh), and despite treating with medicine and soaking her food in garlic, the spots seem to be getting worse. So I need to catch her to dip her in freshwater to try to get the ich off.
She is a tough bugger to catch. At one point she had wedged herself under a rock, and I was actually able to touch her with my fingers. I managed to get two fingers around her, but not enough to really grab her, and I was afraid of hurting her. Fish feel weird underwater. They're slimy when you grab them out of water, but the tang was very rough and scaly.
So I was literally up to my shoulders in tank water yesterday, grumbling and fussing with nets and bowls and all sorts of contraptions trying to catch this fish. There's just no way to do it, not without taking out all the rockwork.
The upside is that she's nice and fat, and she hasn't yet seemed to be irritated by it, even though she looks horrible. We may just have to ride it out and hope for the best.
I've started looking at some digital SLRs. I'm still waiting for the guy who bought my guitar to pay me though (it's a long story, but basically this person is an idiot). I'm torn between getting the Canon Rebel and the 10D. The 10D is nicer and has more features, but it's also discontinued and I can basically only buy it new now. That and it costs about $100 more than the Rebel.
Anyways, I know I shouldn't count my chickens before they're hatched. I still need another $100-200 before I have enough, and I think I've run out of things to eBay (by the way, PayPal takes ridiculous cuts from your payments). I was thinking about selling my Magic: The Gathering cards (no geek jokes!), only to find out that they weren't worth much back then, and they're not worth much today. My Star Trek: The Next Generation trading card game cards aren't worth anything either.
Man, I'm a loser.
You are so funny!!! :)