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FIRST AND FATTEST DOJO: "We must have been very, very good! Mama put us into this huge 65-gallon luxury estate tank! Can't believe how much room we have, now. This is an ocean!"

SECOND OLDER MALE DOJO: "Yep, and now we have a couple new kids on the block. Mama just put in these pipsqueaks a couple days ago. Hmmm. They're quite a bit smaller than we are..."

FIRST DOJO: "Yeah, but the way she feeds us all, they'll be as big as we are in no time."

NEW ROSY BARBS: "Hey, we're new, too! We girls have been looking around. A couple of handsome hulks in here with us!"

NEW (SMALLER) DOJO: "Are you referring to US?"

NEW FEMALE ROSIES: "Heck, no! We were talking about those two male hunk barbs over there. They sure are showing their colors!"

RESIDENT MALE ROSY BARB: "Glad you noticed, gals! Great food, great color. You gals ain't half bad, yourselves!"

FIRST DOJO: "Yeah, well, we're still Mama's favorites!"

SECOND (NEW) LITTLE DOJO: "So, what can we expect now that we're in here?"

SECOND MALE (RESIDENT) DOJO: "A lot of great living, that's what! Look at all those new hiding places! I just dug myself a little burrow under that driftwood over there."

SECOND NEW DOJO: "You mean the one with the rooftop garden?"

SECOND OLDER DOJO: "Yep. That one. That's MY hidey hole, so you stay out of there!"

NEW BLUE GLOFISH: "Sure a lot of floating plants up here!"

SECOND BLUE GLOFISH: "Yeah, well, we're new, too. I'm concerned about that big Shubunkin down there. Can we fit inside its mouth?"

THIRD BLUE GLOFISH: "Maybe. But if we stay up here, he can't get to us. Besides, I heard Mama mentioning rehoming us into a 20-gallon pretty soon."

NEW RED GLOFISH: "Yeah. I understand there are lots of others like us in there. We'll have lots of company of our own kind."

FIRST OLDER DOJO: "Hey! This is OUR commentary! Quit stealing the conversation!"

FIRST NEW BLUE GLOFISH: "Bllleeeaaaahhhh, to you, snakey-fish!"

FIRST OLDER DOJO: "Wonder what glofish danio tastes like?"

SECOND OLDER DOJO: "What do you think of this blue and black substrate?"

FIRST OLDER DOJO: "All I know is it's the same size and shape as what's in that 20 we were in for the longest time, just a different color. It shows US up a lot better!"

SECOND OLDER DOJO: "Mama put our luxury cave in here with us, too."

FIRST OLDER DOJO: "Yeah, except that pesky Shubunkin keeps using it, now!"

SECOND OLDER DOJO: "Mama's been talking about rehoming that shubbie, and that little runt comet, too."

SHUBUNKIN GOLDFISH: "Can't wait to get into a large pond, somewhere!"

FIRST OLDER DOJO: WE can't wait for you to get out of here!"

MALE ROSY BARB: "Yeah, you're a pest! You hog all our food!"

SHUBUNKIN: "I AM well fed, aren't I?"

NEW SMALLER DOJO: "Lid's just opened! Lunchtime!"

SECOND NEW DOJO: "What'll it be, this time? Oooohhhh! Veggie Rounds! And soft ones, too! I'm off to the cafeteria!"

ALL TANK RESIDENTS, IN UNISON: "WAIT FOR US .... !!!"

FIRST OLDER DOJO: "Wait, nothing! It's first come, first served around here!"

AND EVERYONE GATHERS AROUND THE NUTRITIOUS PELLETS AND BEGINS CHOWING DOWN. MORE, LATER ....

Thanks for a view in the life of your Dojos and their tankmates.

What are the soft veggie rounds? My guys may like to try those.

They're algae pellets, put out by Omega One. They're hard in the container, but can be softened up by letting them sit in a cup of tank water for a while, then serving them to the fish. They sink, and dojos and others just love them. On the container, it says, "Veggie Rounds".

Another treat I used to give my dojos before I ran out and couldn't find anymore were Sera brand "O-Nips". Those were soft right out of the container, and my dojos would gorge themselves on them. Probably just as well I can't get anymore -- or I would have obese weather loaches, by now!

-- dojosmama