The Craze continues...

Well..I've decided to write the complete story of Abhi n his Fish in a set of 3...its in vogue to create and think in Trilogy...Like..Meera Nair...Fire, Earth n Water...Like RGV..the unstoppable.. Phoonk1, 2 and may be 3 ...and Rohit Shetty of Golmaal1,2 n 3...(weird inspirations...hai na? i know u have a sarcastic smile lingering :) )

Just to rewind..the first episode was about Abhi's introduction to the world of Fish n then we ended it with the family wondering on what to expect NEXT!!
Well the craze continues..he would make us sit around him n tell us about the various types of fish..we also started taking real interest in all this activity and knowledge sharing :) .. Me n my SIL were looking fwd to breed fish...we used to imagine small baby gold fish floating and had the typical GIRLY expressions of 'o chooo cweet' n all... So this was the next thing was was googled and youtubed :)

We got to know that Goldfish lay eggs which form a thin strand (small eggs joined ) and that at a time a fish can lay many in numbers ....
Now...we put on the thinking hat (we thought so) and started observing the movements of the fish and try to decipher which is a male n which one female.. One fish chasing the other was considered to be their mating play (stop having that weird expression now...it was but natural)..
Information on this kept flowing from our constant source Mr. Abhi...n his friend ..rem'ber the Fish(y) expert? was consulted on this more than twice..

MIL n PIL took good care of the fish...don't forget by now we had 2 aquariums...one for the set of Gold fish and the other one was the MASTERPIECE ...self made one..got it? So coming to the point... various experiments became one of our major tasks for the day.. The fish was fed small piece of rotis (without salt) ... solidified aata (dough), peas, bread pieces..egg...along with its own prescribed food... n to our surprise they ate all these with equal enthusiasm...

The gold fish was found to be always hungry..then I found a piece of info that Goldfish has a memory of 3seconds(this part is still under debate as per few research papers and there are many who are working to know about this.Can you imagine? Human himself is not sure of his memory, but finds time to work on GOLDFISH MEMORY!!) ..Anyways.. so the family concluded it being the reason for the fish to forget about its dosage...

Many more such information kept flowing...and on a busy Monday morning..my SIL, like every other day was leaning and talking to the fish...n suddenly we heard her calling our names..we rushed n found her pointing to a looong thread like strand.. We had done enough of research now to need an explanation...immediately a bottle, a big plastic one, was filled with water n this strand (these were goldfish EGGS!!! we had read about it)... We had also read that the hatching period is 7 days...so the countdown began...we had 3 things to take care now..the 2 aquariums and the strand of eggs... at the end of 5th day...still no change...

Finally the 7th day...the strand had broken into pieces... we got more excited...we dint have time to read on it further as this was engrossing enough...
8th n 9th day passed too...n finally 10th day..we though that the eggs were not good n hence dint hatch... A sadness pervaded over the entire household...

Suddenly my MIL burst out into fits of laugh...n that too pointing at me n my SIL... it struck us quite late, that the long was nothing but the Fish SHIT (or should i say poop?).. n the explanation, the food habit of the fish had changed and so did the outburst (!!!!????)...

We the fish crazy people ...had actually preserved and taken care of fish poop for 10 complete days and used to WATCH it closely for Hatching!!!

This time we became the laughing stock....Abhi joined my MIL n PIL n making fun of us...n we to joined...
That night as well we all slept at 1am...but not before having a bath at 12pm..
Some revelations do strike a bit too hard ;)