Fishes can calm you too!

Couple of days back while driving back home from class, I passed by a fish shop. Strangely, I decided to turn back to the fish shop and I found myself walking into the shop to browse the fishes they had for sale.

I always reared fishes since I was child but my fish rearing hobby went into hiatus as I had progressed into my tertiary studies due to time commitments and more assignments to do. Personally, since my younger days I always felt that fishes had a calming effect on me. But I didn't really go into a complete hiatus since I still kept my giant guorami which I started rearing since it was just as tiny as 8cm. Now it is about a good 50cm! This year will be the 8th year since I first bought it.

The picture above is some new additions of fishes in one of my old two feet aquariums. While browsing the fish inventories in the shop I decided to get some Tiger Barbs since they swim in schools and they are always full of live. It might be difficult to see thee fishes in the picture since my camera handphone does not really have a good camera (1.3 mega pixel, oh well......) and I took the picture at night. Oh yeaa, I added some greens into the aquarium as well to make it more comfortable for the fishes (here's a tip for fish keeping - it is not really good to have a bare aquarium for fishes since it tends to scare them since there is no hiding or resting place).

Anyway, I ended up walking out of the fish shop with 15 Tiger Barbs and some fresh water plants for aqua decoration! All in all, it took me about 2 hours to clean up the aquarium, prep the filter and a fair bit of water to set up the aquarium for those small Barbs. Now, I come home everyday looking at this small fellows swimming aruond and I get a nice calming zen effect.