Thank you Rip. I have 16 other catfish to keep me company, & this one was not starved to death. He was quite a healthy size for an upside down catfish.
This is Little Red Eye who has turned out to be female.
Some of the Cory guys...
I got up this morning and fix the noisy aquarium pump but manufacturing a plastic bearing out of a bit of drip irrigation Plumbing.
No one can explain to me why my cell phone capitalizes the word Plumbing.
But my pump is totally silent now and I saved myself about $75.
It took a bit of fiddling because the original bearing is made of rubber and self-aligning. My homemade during was created from a little drip nozzle and I had to align it myself by hand.
Finally I plugged it in and it worked so I put it all together in the tank and it didn't work!
I whacked it one time with a screwdriver handle and now it's running fine.
Life is like that a lot. Sometimes you just have to know exactly where and how hard and with what to smack it.
43 years ago I was working as the assistant manager of a rental yard and some Lebanese boys came in to rent a lawn mower. They didn't speak much English but they had cash and they could work a lawn mower.
What they couldn't work was the Coke machine. I went over and gave it a smack in the right spot and it delivered their Coke.
That's when I found out how American culture had infected the world, because one of these guys turned to the other and said, "Woah! just like the Fonz!"
I had to confess to them that the Fonz had much better hair, but I owned a faster motorcycle.
It wasn't until years later that I found out Henry Winkler couldn't ride at all, and basically crashed a lightweight Triumph into a garage trying to film his first sequence.
I was, in those days, a devil-may-care grease monkey on a hot 900. I also had hair. It was that long ago...
You all have fun and take time out for a Coke!