Before the outage I had lost a couple of Jack Dempsey fish due to some algae that was all fuzzy and white. So when they died I thought I'd go ahead and get rid of the algae in a special way, I'd eat it. Not myself of course, I'd feed it to fish that could overwhelm the not-so-fungi and stay alive. So I got about 20 feeder fish (fish normally reserved to feed larger fish) and dumped them in the tank. I only lost 5 of them during the power outage and unfortunately the fungi/algae is still there. Crazy micro-ecosystem.
Despite my numb fingers and toes I thought back to an exercise that I had assigned prior to this forum in which participants simply took the idea of an aquarium and ran with it. I had the idea of an old aquarium and used only clip art to come up with an idea using Coelacanths, a plesiosaur, bass, some sea dragons, and various plant life. The aquarium of course in this case is of a much larger variety.
On the other end of the time and size spectrum I have found and modified a picture that I took some time back when my fish tank was infested with snails. A little brightness, contrast, intensity adjustment turns the picture in the perfect desktop image with the left side of the screen free and blank for icons to 'float' in (pun intended).
The challenge of a one word exercise is not necessarily in duplicating what your first thought would be, whether it be the aquarium at Sea World or at the local pet store. The challenge is in discovering what else you can think of in the process of creation. In the event of my first attempt, my Aquarium was rather unusual in that it might not be pictured as an aquarium at all. In my second attempt we aren't necessarily seeing an aquarium, but only a small piece of it.
Recently (on my 4th wedding anniversary) (thanks to all the well wishers) my wife and I stopped into a pet store and looked at some of the aquarium supplies they had. We were surprised and delighted to see a little non-living aquarium that was modeled as a golf course. We had both seen non-living aquariums before in which plastic replica of fish float around in the bubbles produced by some air pump, but this seemed to stand out from the traditional design.
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