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Man Eating Chicken is dead.

Sorry I haven't posted...I've been watching the Super Bowl for two weeks straight!!

Hmmm. Work: Riotously busy, so I won't bother promising anything for this week. But maybe I'll surprise you. Also, I don't want to post once and then vanish for another month, so no worries there. The site's like a junked car. It's annoying to think about crawling under it to fix things, but once I do, it'll run smoothly.

To clarify: If I don't post for a while, it doesn't mean I died. But then again, I suppose it could?

Speaking of death, our last fish finally kicked. Now we have a 55 gallon fish tank with nothing but water in it. Sad, but now the opportunities are endless. Any ideas? I'm thinking blue crayfish and blue crayfish exclusively.

Posted by Matt on 02/02/2009. E-mail me!



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Just keep in mind crayfish can escape from tanks.

I never did find mine.

Chestnuts roasted by Brian @ 02/02/2009 5:43 AM

Mantis shrimp!!!

I can’t believe I forgot to record the Puppy Bowl. My DVR knew to record The Office, but not to start 10 minutes late. I did see that they finally put together new opening credits! I’ve been waiting on that forever.

Sorry about your fish, Matt. Great to have you back :D

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 02/02/2009 5:51 AM

i recommend an oscar as your fish of choice. each one has its own personality and that personality is all bastard.

Chestnuts roasted by clrs. @ 02/02/2009 6:30 AM

Oh THANK THE LORD yur back!!! :D Now all the ugliness can be put behind us once and for all! Sorry to hear about your fish. It always sucks when your pets go. I recommend Crabs. Fiddler and Hermit. They’d be easy to keep and different. Also, I support the idea of a chat room for X-E. It’s up to Matt of course, but I think it’d fun .

Chestnuts roasted by ULTRAMAN @ 02/02/2009 7:52 AM

Seahorses?

Chestnuts roasted by Ragnarok @ 02/02/2009 8:11 AM

Good to hear from you again, Matt! I’m listening to Blondie!

Chestnuts roasted by Hoverbored @ 02/02/2009 8:11 AM

Two words: Mantis Shrimp

Chestnuts roasted by JayB @ 02/02/2009 8:13 AM

isn’t the obvious answer for the tank coconut crabs?
glad to have you back matt. Did you happen to see and if so what did you think of GI Joe and Transformer commericals. Also did you ever think 15 or so years ago that huge budget tentpole summer live action movies about GI Joe and Transformers would be spending millions of bucks on superbowl commercials?

Chestnuts roasted by thejyav @ 02/02/2009 8:28 AM

ZOMG Mantis Shrimp, FTW!

Chestnuts roasted by Neg @ 02/02/2009 8:42 AM

There was an article the other week (I believe on cnn.com) about annoying things people do on the internet, and people writing “first!” when they’re the first ones to post was right up there.

Chestnuts roasted by Daffy @ 02/02/2009 8:51 AM

About the fish, and Man Eating Chicken, we gave them to a lovely farmer and his family. They’ll have plenty of room to run. And swim. And lots of chicken. They’re happy now.

We have a little african clawed frog. He is fantastic. He doesn’t have a tongue.

Chestnuts roasted by Lucky Lighter @ 02/02/2009 9:14 AM

Ultraman is right, fiddler crabs are the way to go. I used to have some and they are hilarious. We floated lily pads on top and the crabs would use it as a position of dominance a la king of the mountain. Whichever one was on top would stand on the edge looking down on the others waving his claw and talking shit. eventually another would gather himself enough to make an attempt on the top crab… epic struggle followed.

Chestnuts roasted by drew do @ 02/02/2009 9:29 AM

We converted our 72 gallon from freshwater to saltwater last summer, and it was The Best Decision Ever, and not as much of a money suck as I expected. Plus the thing looks 500,000,000 times better than it did when we kept parrot cichlids and arowanas.

We did a reef tank which is pretty costly to setup, but you don’t have to do that, you can get one big marine fish or even crabs and snails and still have a great looking aquarium. The only thing is it won’t be as resilient to neglect although I find it to be way less work than maintaining all those freshwater fish. Apparently I bought the shittingest combination of fish possible, because those things crapped nonstop.

I do feel guilty about your fish – I think I said something about them in the last thread and how you should start keeping and ruining tanks again. I should have kept my crazy mouth shut – I know I have those hoodoo powers and now your fish is dead leaving you with a big blank canvas to sink your cash into. Sorry, X-E Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by Rev. Back It On Up 13 @ 02/02/2009 10:03 AM

Just buy an oscar, they are super aggressive and will eat feeder fish. Also, if you just buy one, in a 55 gallon take by itself, it will get really big, probably hand sized at least. We had one in college that would jump out of the water and bite at your fingers when you dangled them on the surface. He would go through a dozen feeder fish in no time. Very cool guy. We had to give him up to a neighbor with a much larger fish tank though, ours was a 30 gallon.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 02/02/2009 11:01 AM

Rainbow crabs. Feed them babies.

Chestnuts roasted by Justin @ 02/02/2009 12:04 PM

Oscars are sweet, but you can’t really have a whole lot else. They also live forever…and ever…

Chestnuts roasted by drew do @ 02/02/2009 12:06 PM

Easy care, hardy and beautiful for freshwater tanks are African cichlids. In a 55 gallon, you can put some soft substrate and lightweight cave decorations or driftwood things, and maybe six different african cichlids in different colors. They’re really personable and colorful, the closest thing to saltwater you can get in a freshwater tank I think. At one point we had 8 africans, 7 parrot cichlids, an enormous pleco and an arowana in our 72 gallon. That was too much. I’d stick with just africans and maybe a small pleco to clean the glass.

They were also almost impossible to kill – the only thing to ever kill one in my tank was a very large silver arowana named Mister Gone.

Chestnuts roasted by Rev. Back It On Up 13 @ 02/02/2009 12:15 PM

Cool to have you back Matt! The last several weeks here were a total trip!

When I was a kid, I had a shark in my fish tank, although I don’t know if it was a real shark or a species of fish that was called a shark. It was only around 6 inches or so.

Chestnuts roasted by Joey @ 02/02/2009 12:16 PM

I say fill the tank with crabs and lobsters. That way when they die you can cook and eat them.

Nice to have you back.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 02/02/2009 12:21 PM

Be careful with those crabs though, they will escape if given the opportunity. Look next time they have them at the store. It isn’t unusual for them to have all openings of the tank taped off for this reason.

Chestnuts roasted by drew do @ 02/02/2009 12:28 PM

Isn’t it obvious?

Baby Coconut crabs.

Or you could buy four little turtles and make them wear bandannas.

Chestnuts roasted by ThePlatinumStag @ 02/02/2009 12:36 PM

A tank full of weather loaches. Or a tank full of plecos. Those things never die. Maybe an Arowana? If you have $500 to spare. But then you can claim to own a “living fossil”.

Chestnuts roasted by 4-LOM @ 02/02/2009 12:39 PM

Reading through this page I see a few Disney shout outs. I am always happy to hear people talking about what a good time it is. I am going there on my honeymoon in August. The booking is driving me CRAZY though, I am worried I am missing something…

Chestnuts roasted by drew do @ 02/02/2009 12:44 PM

How did the robot turn out Matt?

Chestnuts roasted by mr. Tony Danza @ 02/02/2009 12:59 PM

Matt – I had a buddy that had a Vegitarian Piranha (Pacus), Looked the same as the carnivore but you don’t have to spend as much on food, And his lived for years in a nasty ass tank you couldn’t even see all the way through. So evidentally they don’t take much work. But warning, at least from his they will grow to fit their enviroment. So it got pretty freaking big but looked cool.

Chestnuts roasted by Saint @ 02/02/2009 1:00 PM

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