Do you know the Mark Knophler song “I Used to Could”?
I never heard that expression until I dated a woman from the hollers of Tennessee.
Debbie: “I don’t do it now more, but I used to could”.
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I’ve raised tropical fish all my life, but never before had a relationship with one. I never felt a friendship until now.
I got two really big fish in my 125 gallon tank. They were sold to me 4 years ago as Silver Dollars, but I knew better. They might have long lost cousins that were Silver Dollars, but these two were something different. Turns out they are Pacu, which is a relative of both the Silver Dollar and the Piranha.
They are like vegetarian Piranhas! Seriously, they don’t eat the other fish so I can keep schools of little fish like Neons with them, and they don’t bother them.
I recently noticed that, while all of the dozens of other fish in the tank are just swimming around aimlessly, the biggest Pacu is at the front of the tank just watching me. And when I turn around and look at him, he reacts with a little wiggle. He or she likes me.
It’s kind of spooky.
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