Dojos discussing their new digs, tankmates ...

[Dojosmama]

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 ....

[starsplitter7]

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.

[Dojosmama]

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