I have a clownfish. His name is not Nemo.
His name is Uhtred – because apparently he’s a Viking clownfish… (sometimes I wonder where AMP comes up with this stuff)
Back to Uhtred…
Have you watched Finding Nemo?
Remember how cute and sweet they were? Nemo, the beloved adventurous one, and Marlin, the overprotective, neurotic but loving father.
Well, Uhtred apparently is nothing like them.
He’s evil.
Pure evil.
In his time before he lived with us, he’s committed genocide, killing three of his kind.
So, we let him be the only one of his kind.
Apparently that’s not enough.
My poor other fish get terrorized by Uhtred. He nips and rams and generally harasses the others. I think he’s even taken a chunk out of my blue tang.. (She looks like Dory, but that’s not her name either).
As I said he’s evil.
If I could change one thing about him, I’d want him to get along well with others…
Or maybe turn him into two nice little clownfish who can play nice.
Either, or.
Inspired by prompt no. 1 @ Mama Kat’s… If you could change anything about your pet, what would it be?
The Undomestic Housewife 
It’s amazing how much personality even fish have. And it’s amazing how much evil is packed into other creatures.
I know. Each of my fish has its own personality. I love having fish – the only thing that sucks is that they aren’t cuddly.. But clearly I wouldn’t want to cuddle with the evil one anyways.. Or maybe that’s just what he needs?!
I think you’re on to something. Maybe evil can be vanquished with cuddles.
That would be awesome!
Being a clownfish, he probably thinks he’s funny when he does those “evil” things to the other fishes.
Love your post but your pet seriously needs some anger management support, lol!
Haha.. Can you imagine? A bunch of fish in an anger management bowl?! My niece always tells me that I should put Uhtred in time out.. She says than he’ll learn to play nice. The two year old might have a point.
Us humans have such a hard time coming to terms with nature when it’s not cute, fluffy and pretty, don’t we? Unfortunately, your little clown would probably be cock of the walk if he lived in the ocean, it’s survival of the fittest, you know!
You’re right. He probably would be the only one able to survive — on the other hand… these fish are expensive, and I’m not a big fan of his killing them off. He doesn’t need to be cute and fluffy.. Just not evil.
I know the Beta fish are very aggressive although pretty and like to be alone. Perhaps the clown fish do too.
Stopping by from writer’s workshop. Here’s the link to ours if you get a chance to stop by: http://zemeks.blogspot.com/2011/01/pizza-trail-mix-bread-pudding-poems.html
Yea, I’ve heard the same thing about beta fish. Thanks for stopping by.. I’ll try and pop by to yours too!
I thought clown fish were supposed to be all happy go lucky and funny?? Maybe he’s some other kind of fish in disguise.
I know! Maybe he’s an evil shark disguised as a tiny little clownfish?
We’re fish owners too. Mine have been alive forever and Dumb Dad won’t let us get a different pet until they die. It’s been four years! I’m starting to think he just keeps replacing them when he finds them dead so we don’t pressure him for the dog we think we want:)
Haha.. Do you have freshwater or saltwater?
Some of our saltwater fish live 20+ years.. So I’m sure we’re going to have them forever. At least my only job is to feed them in the mornings.. AMP takes care of everything else.
I’ve never thought much about fish having personalities. That’s too funny. It sounds like he’s the bully of the fish tank!
Yup, he’s definitely a bully. The fish have such personalities.. They are actually quite fun to watch. AMP and I do that some evenings, just sit by the tank and watch how they interact. :)
Oh, I can’t take your evil fish! Maybe he needs his own tank?
According to my niece he should be permanently in a ‘time-out’ tank till he learns to play nice. I’m hoping he gets over it. The tank is still quite new, so he might just be having adjustment issues.
I wish he would learn to make friends too. Maybe he needs a time out.
Could be.. We keep coming back to that idea, so maybe we should give it a try.
eek!! sounds like a dangerous little guy!
Yea.. That’s why I won’t put my hands in the tank.
Hahaha! That is funny! (well, to me it is… because, I called my fish [awhile ago] cannibals and wrote a post about it!) But I totally get ya. Great post!
Haha.. Thanks Lisa.. Cannibal fish.. Maybe mine is related to yours?!
I too had a cannibal fish in my fish tank once when the hubs randomly added fishes in. Within a week half our fishes went “mising”
Aww.. We had three go ‘missing’. Not sure if it’s the Evil Viking that’s doing it tho or just the tank is not cycled enough…