10 gallon tank

[afireinside]

ok, i know it says in my sig i'm gonna buy a 10 gallon with some of my bday $$, but my dad's all like: oppositearmor! (i'm not gonna use my real name) u r not gonna get a 10g cause u can hardly take care of ur 29g! hey, it's not my falt the person who was watching my fish while i was gone measured out to much food. so, any ideas how to convince him?

 

[daudy_dojo]

MY FISH ARE GONNA GET EATEN THAT ARE IN MY 29G... is what i would say

 

[Jen21]

Prove to him that you can take very good care of your bigger tank. Also, maybe be really nice to him, making him cupcakes might work

 

[ncjharris]

Use some kind of reverse psycology,

"I won't get that tank because you don't want me too, but maybe if you get it, I can show you how its done and you can start keeping fish too....."

Or something,

Or Jedi Mind tricks??

Actually cupcakes.

 

[Sunny.C]

Just say how can you put a price on the ones you love and then point at the fish(BIG BIG SMILE) haha

 

[Tolak]

Sure, reverse psycology works. Tell him he is right, you're going to save for a motorcycle/hunting rifle/drumset, something that will totally make him nuts. The 10 will seem real tame.

Tolak

 

[daudy_dojo]

tell him this "can i get a 300G tank? <long silence> i thought you wanted me to have more fish so if i get a 300G i can get MORE fish"

 

[sylvia]

Or just go for the cupcake idea... no, realy, I think that one's a winner... Who could resist?

 

[afireinside]

Sure, reverse psycology works. Tell him he is right, you're going to save for a motorcycle/hunting rifle/drumset, something that will totally make him nuts. The 10 will seem real tame.

Tolak

i think i'm gonna do that one.

 

[catyrpelius]

You could try that one and make cupcakes for good measure

 

[afireinside]

i'll do that too.

 

[pica_nuttalli]

why does he think you aren't taking care of your 29g?

 

[mlee0332]

Actually, try to hit him up for a bigger one than a 29g. After having the bigger ones, a smaller one's gonna be harder to keep up with But i see you have smaller ones so it don't matter...

Reverse psycology will work and so will the drum set idea... My brother has
But if you have had a 10 before...one and my parents want to shoot themselves for letting him get it for christmas... (and so do i)

 

[afireinside]

why does he think you aren't taking care of your 29g?

ok, here is the story, i'm sick this week, so i'm basically in teh basment 24/7. when i went up to my room, where my aquarium is, it is completely filthy with fish flakes all over the place. i know i didn't feed them, i was trying to make the tank cleaner by not feeding them a day or two. so, i look in the food canister, and a whole heck of alot of it is gone. so i go to me little brother, and i go (insert name here)! did u feed my fish? he replies no. than i was about to go to my mom, but she wouldn't feed them, so i went to my little sister. (insert name here)! did u feed my fish. she mumbles. i go: what do u say, she goes yes. than i yell at her telling her she's never alowed to feed the fish (that was one of my rules already, she barely made gold fish survive a month, so ya, i reminded her). why was i so ticked off? cause i cleaned my tank the day before.

and oh, i'm gonna tell my dad: if u don't let me get a (what ever size) tank, i'm gonna spend my $$$ on a PSP (which he will hate cause i'm already on electronics alot). or, i'll tell him i'll be a profesional wrestler when i grow up. (he hates wrestling)

 

[RYO]

Buy a bottle of single malt whiskey. Park your self down next to him one night and ---- ok here's your choice
A) look what i bought with the money i made from breeding my fish, now if i had a bigger tank , well who knows what i could buy you
B) hand him 1 of the two glasses your holding and say hey wot the hell i aint got nuffink else to do