New Fishies!

Yup, I got some.
Drove down to the local fish supplier after uni and stood there deliberating over exactly what fish I wanted for half an hour while an attendant grew steadily more impatient with me (probably).
Anyway, I felt I needed a small school of something in my tank to give a boost to the tank population and liveliness. But not too small a species as they might be bullied by some of the larger fish in the tank. So I settled on a school of penguin tetras, or hocky-stick tetras depending on whose naming them. I got 10 which I think proved a good idea in giving them security and not looking like a piddly attempt at a 'school'.

The school of Penguin Tetras

Those things are amazingly hard to capture in a photo without blurring...
Next on my list was a feature fish of some kind. Unfortunately I didn't feel a discus was a good idea in my size tank, as well as requiring differing water quality. After looking around at the shop I decided I quite liked this adorable 'royal whiptail' catfish. Which I have just now dubbed Budgie.

Budgie the Royal Whiptail Catfish

Upon introducing these newcomers into the tank, the tetras found each other and all huddled close but managed to explore the tank quickly, while Budge sat in one place nibbling on a pebble. Alan started non-nonchalantly pretending to eat algae that 'just happened' to be in the immediate locale of Budgie in order to sus out this new bottom feeder. Gus decided it'd be funny to chase the tetras, in a similar manner to a child chasing seagulls, no hope of catching them, but fun anyway. Bob and Will looked a bit wary of the newcomers and Bruce was apathetic as usual.
Exciting stuff really.