King of the Tank!

Being that our product is called FortyFourFish, it is only appropriate that we have fish all over our office. Stuffed fish, plastic fish, candy fish, and on and on.

And of course, there's the ACTUAL fish. A tank of them, to be exact, situated right next to my desk. I've never really been a fish owner myself, aside from a beta or two, and they hardly count. Not that they don't count as fish, but being as low maintenance as they are, I don't feel like a very accomplished fish keeper. In the tank next to my desk, there's 3 orangey colored fish, 3 fish with whiskers, a stripey guy, a black one that looks like he has a mohawk, 3 sharks (and these are all technical terms, mind you) and this guy here:

He's a little tough to see there, but that is his natural state - tough to see. He's our sucker fish (again, technical term, of course) and he hides most of the day, ESPECIALLY if you are looking for him. I can go days and days of looking at the fish tank (and sometimes do find myself a little caught up in gazing into it) without seeing this guy, but every time I do see him, he's about 16 times larger than the last time I saw him. That's why I've decided to call him Gigantor the Gigantic.

Which Gigantor does is lay in wait, hiding underneath this tree we have inside the tank. He waits until you're really absorbed in your work, then darts out and circles the tank a few times so fast that you can't help but can't sight of him in your peripheral vision. Then, when you get over the shock that he's finally decided to appear, he darts away again before you even really get a look at him, aside from just a general impression of hugeness. And try as you might, you can look all around the tree and inside it - you're not going to see him unless he wants to be seen.

His other trick is to lull you into a false sense of security - not show up for a week or more at a time, make you think that maybe the other fish all ganged up and ate him in the night. Then, one day, when you casually glance over at the tank, there he is, pressed up against the front of the glass in all his biggness, his sucker fish mouth on the underside of him chomping away at the algae like he's trying to get through the glass to do the same to your face. It could scare you right out of your chair.

On reflection, I think I will call him Gigantor the Crafty & Terrifying, and maybe spend less time looking at the fishtank.

Posted by Kelly Lang on November 18, 2008 at 12:47 pm EST

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