I have had an aquarium for many years. I probably got my first aquarium some time around grade 8 or maybe earlier and we always had an aquarium in the house. I got my big, 50 gallon aquarium in 2000. I have had all sorts of different types of fish and have taken care of it—aside from the last year it was in Regina when I moved to Calgary—that whole time. I have never had a fish come any where near my hand while I was cleaning the tank. Tonight, the fish seems really interested in my hand. A little too interested hand. I guess they never heard don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

I had a small cut on my index finger and there was some dead skin hanging off of it. That sounds kind of gross, but you wouldn’t have even noticed it. Anyways, the tiger barbs were circling my hand and then they started biting my hand. It didn’t hurt. They cleaned all the dead skin off. It tickled. Then they started to just bite my hand. It was something else. I deciphered from this that there were hungry. I don’t know why else they would have the guts to pull that off. So, I gave them extra brine shrimp tonight.

It was a win-win in the end. I got my wound cleaned and they got some extra Rhett-food.