Devious Dojos plotting mischief ... more listening in ...

[Dojosmama]

FIRST AND FATTEST MALE DOJO: "Tomorrow is April Fools Day, and do I have a dilly of a joke to play on our Mama!"

FEMALE DOJO: "Oh? Tee-hee-hee! What would that be?"

FIRST MALE DOJO: "First, I'm going to swim to the surface and push up the duct tape that covers that airline hole. Then, all three of us will bury ourselves in the gravel behind the rocks, so Mama can't see our heads sticking out. When Mama comes in to check on us, she won't be able to find us, and she'll think we jumped out! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

SECOND MALE DOJO: "That's a dirty trick, and you know it! Shame on you!"

FEMALE DOJO: "Yeah! That's not nice to scare our kind Mama that way!"

MALE ROSY BARB: "Methinks you three slender-bods have way too much time on your fins!"

FIRST MALE DOJO: "Who asked YOU?"

FEMALE DOJO: "Hey, what if we make our Mama cry? That would be awful!"

SECOND MALE DOJO: "She might get mad and with-hold our treats!"

FIRST MALE DOJO: "Nah! She'll be so glad to see us when we finally emerge, she'll DOUBLE the treats she gives us!"

FEMALE DOJO: "Do I detect an ulterior motive?"

FEMALE ROSY BARB: "Naughty fishy! Naughty fishy!"

SECOND MALE DOJO: "It could backfire. She might think we're gone for good and go out and buy new dojos to replace us."

FEMALE DOJO: "And then we would be overcrowded!"

FIRST MALE DOJO: "And then, when she finds us, she'll put us into that new 65-gallon!"

FEMALE DOJO: "OR ... she'll put the new ones in there, instead! Besides, this a dumb trick. She'll look on the floor behind this tank and not see us there, and then she'll suspect something and start rearranging our furniture."

SECOND MALE DOJO: "Yeah, and then she'll discover us hiding in the gravel. Dumb joke! Won't work. Besides, it's mean!"

FIRST MALE DOJO (FINALLY ADMITTING IT): "Yeah, I guess you're right. We'll have to try something else for April Fools Day."

FEMALE DOJO: "Like WHAT ???"

FIRST MALE DOJO: "I know! We can pretend to be sick!"

SECOND MALE DOJO: "Yeah! And Mama will feel sorry for us and give us even more O-Nips!"

FEMALE DOJO: "She'll probably put us into a bucket with some awful medicine. No, thank-you!"

FIRST MALE DOJO: "Ooops! Didn't think about that!"

FEMALE ROSY BARB: "Why can't you three just behave yourselves and enjoy the great care and love you're getting? Not every fish is as lucky as you are and we are!"

(ALL THREE DOJOS NOD IN AGREEMENT, SWIM UP INTO THE FLOATING PLANTS, AND REST THERE, CONTENTEDLY. MAMA NOW KNOWS TO WATCH THE TANK CAREFULLY, COME FRIDAY!)

(Hee-hee!)

[Diana]

And one of mine is at the end of the tank nearest the computer screen, reading that.

[Dojosmama]

Getting ideas, I'm sure. Learning from the best .... LOL!

Dojosmama

[starsplitter7]

In my tank it is the Yoyos plotting trouble.