Blomady wrote:Hallowinxer wrote:── Pet's name
Monni (her breed is partamonni in Finnish so I just took the monni-part as her name. Very creative, I know, my elementary school teacher was mocking me and saying “it’s as creative as calling a horse with the name Horse!”But you know I was a kid when I got her!!
── Info about them
Her breed is Ancistrus and she’s female. Unfortunately she passed away 4 years ago but she was already 15 YEARS old which is really much for a fish so I’m grateful to all these years with her <3
She was a night owl like me: in those days she was mostly in her castle and showed herself only when I was in my room or gave her food in the morning. In the nights she had her own party and kept swimming around the aquarium really fast and endlessly. She also pushed the thermometer against the aquarium glass and I was woken up by the sound of it in the middle of the night. She was really playful and loved climbing and swinging on the water plants (sometimes it looked like some acrobatics!)
She was a real drama queen. She was really sensitive: even though my aquarium was on the 2nd floor of my childhood house she got scared if someone shut a door on the 1st floor and swam back to her castle. If she was “outside” (I mean outside of her castle) I needed to crawl on the floor or sneak to my room because if you walked with heavy or even normal steps she got scared and swam to her castle to hide. Sometimes when I was already in my room and just waved my head, she got scared. But I taught her to come out: everytime I gave food to my fish I knocked the glass gently and she learned to follow my knocking and came out to eat. And if some other fish tried to eat her food she fake-attacked them to scare them away.
She was an introvert like me. She didn’t show up to anyone else than me. She lived with us 15 years but my mom saw her only a couple of times. Usually she went back to her castle if my friends were visiting me and showed up to me after they’d left. If some other fish went inside her castle she waved with her tail to kick them out.
She was also very curious. Once, she swam so high that her head broke the surface of the water and she actually touched the air. Luckily she didn’t do that anymore because I was a bit worried about her.
── How the pet became part of the family?
She was one of my first pets: I started with virtual pets such as Aquapets, Tamagotchis and Nintendogs ds games and soon wanted to have a real pet. I got her in the middle of elementary school, I think I was in the 3rd grade. My mom and I thought that an aquarium could be a great idea: no one can become allergic to it and it was easy to take care of. I saved money for a long time and bought the aquarium with my own money (I remember it was 50e which was a HUGE amount of money as a kid) and mom bought me the fish and all of the decoration stuff: some sand, the castle, some water plants and the chemical liquids etc. I got 10 other fish with Monni but their lifespan was much shorter, from 2 to 4 years. My aquarium was a smaller one so the seller of the pet shop told us not to buy another Ancistrus so my Monni can be the only ruler of the aquarium.
── Fun fact about the pet
Once when I was singing the theme of the 1st season of Winx she came out of the castle to listen <3
── Magical abilities
She can turn invisible and sense every movement and sound around her; that’s why she can tell if someone breaks into the house.
── Photo of the pet
Monni, the ruler of the castle
Monni and her friend
Woow, so cool! Thank you for participating, and good luck!
Yeyy thank you!
