The Cleaning Fish

My six years old son, Anugerah is crazy about animals, no matter what, from insects to dinosaurs. Long before we moved to our new house, he asked me many times about having s quirrel, iguana, rabbit, another dog (we have already a dog), fish and even a gecko.

Because we don’t want to live in a zoo, now we just have fish and a dog. I’d like to have a squirrel and iguana as well but they must be free in the garden. Since we don’t have any big trees, it would be hard to keep them in our garden.

Anugerah was very excited when the fish pond is finally finished. Together with his sister, Pelangi, he played in the pond before we put fish in. He knows a lot about fish; the names, shape and colors. Beside fish, he wants to put turtle and lobster. Preferably he likes to have a seahorse in it. As the name said, it’s not suitable for our pond. He gave a suggestion to take home some sea water if we go to the beach. But finally he could reconcile on it.

We have bought Comet and Koi fish and two turtles. On his suggestion we also bought cleaning fish. I am not sure whether this is a international name for this fish. My son called it with that name and the fish vendor as well. But when I typ "cleaning fish" in a Search Engine to find a pict of it, I just found pictures of people cleaning fish. Yukky...

The children just give names to turtles. The turtles are male and female. The female’s name is Tortilla and the other is Tortillo. Every morning the children went to the pond to see its inhabitants. They counted the fish and tried to find out where the turtles and cleaning fish are. The turtles have some favorite spots so it's easy to find them but it’s hard to find cleaning fish. Their color is black and they like to stay at the bottom of the pond or between roots of the plants. Anugerah is the one who could find them fastest.

The cleaning fish don’t care about their surroundings. Although there are more than one cleaning fish, they never stay together. The only thing they do is eating the dirt. It seems that they don't enjoy swimming like other fish. In a short time they are growing bigger.

Sometimes you see this behavior at people as well. They just do what is important for them without paying attention to other people and their surroundings. They just make themselves bigger. But one thing is clear, the cleaning fish do what other fish get benefit from it. How’s it at people?




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