Speaking as a keeper of fish, (I currently curate 4 tanks)
I disagree. If one maintains their tanks properly and does the proper prep work for the fish, your fish will live long healthy lives. However I can say this with authority.. FISH are expensive pets to keep. Ive spent easily 500 bucks just this year on them.
BUT… they are still just living decoration. At least I can’t imagine how to play with them etc.
You feed them and you watch them. Anything I miss here? (genuinely interested, since I never had fish)
Some of my old fish would swim up and brush themselves up against my finger if I put it in their tank.
And maybe this is just confirmation bias on my part, but I could swear that on one or two occasions where I was feeling upset they’d swim right up against the glass to try and comfort me.
I’d say fish are kind of like a very old dog/cat that’s too weary to play with toys much these days: They might not be up for much physical activity, but their presence is reassuring all the same.
This … is genius
I would hang a cubist Bug in my living room.
Mr Wilde had such a picture.
Do more BugArt in future strips. Comedy gold.
(Who has no arms and legs and hangs on the wall? Art. Who’s his dad? Pop Art.)
Speaking as a keeper of fish, (I currently curate 4 tanks)
I disagree. If one maintains their tanks properly and does the proper prep work for the fish, your fish will live long healthy lives. However I can say this with authority.. FISH are expensive pets to keep. Ive spent easily 500 bucks just this year on them.
BUT… they are still just living decoration. At least I can’t imagine how to play with them etc.
You feed them and you watch them. Anything I miss here? (genuinely interested, since I never had fish)
Some of my old fish would swim up and brush themselves up against my finger if I put it in their tank.
And maybe this is just confirmation bias on my part, but I could swear that on one or two occasions where I was feeling upset they’d swim right up against the glass to try and comfort me.
I’d say fish are kind of like a very old dog/cat that’s too weary to play with toys much these days: They might not be up for much physical activity, but their presence is reassuring all the same.
Here’s a little something you can do with you fishes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbei8_tRNS8
Fish are food, not friends…or pets.
Canvas Kibble – love it! A whole new veing of comedy just waitingto be mined!
Is that a Bugcasso?
To be fair, a fish can move around, whereas art is static. That’s gotta count for something, right?
…oh wait. Lava lamps exist.
Also, wind chimes.