Day 1: “Oh look! Silvertip tetras! What cool fish, let’s get some!
Day 2: “Gosh, they’re awfully spunky!”
Day 3: “Wow, they’re kind of chasey.”
Day 4: “Actually they’re VERY chasey.”
Day 5: “Especially that one male. He’s quite the bully, isn’t he?”
Day 6: “Did you notice how that one tiny male silvertip has herded the entire population of our 20-gallon tank into the extreme top right corner of the tank?”
Day 7: “If I could have caught that fish, I would have flushed him.”
Day 8: “That one fish represents everything that’s wrong with the world. I hate him. I lie awake at night hating him.”
Day 9: “I don’t care if we have to tear up all the plants in the tank, let’s take ALL the silvertips back to the store.”
Day 10: [two people, two nets, a length of tubing, and several uprooted plants later] “Here, aquarium store: they’re yours.”
“And look! Fish are swimming peacefully throughout the tank once more. Yay!”