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I've felt all icky since mid-yesterday. Tired and headachy and weak and bluh. I think it's the weather. Like, I noticed when I started feeling like that yesterday, it started raining, and today it's been raining most of the day. When it's sunny and cool (or mild) I feel spiffy. When it's really freakin' hot, raining, or (sometimes) cloudy, I feel gross. Interesting.
And I finally got me a new betta~ *squee* He's pwetty... head's kinda golden, body is brilliant lavender (think brilliant as in UV light on white ink), and fins are dark red... makes me think of early dusk. Great time of day. ^o^ It'll take me weeks to decide on a cool name for a fish this pretty though. :P But, I worry about him... all he does all day is hide. In a corner, behind his rainbow rock hidey-hole, or under a clump of moss. Only comes up on occasion to breathe, then goes right back down. I guess I can't blame him... he was all settled in that little death trap bowl on the store shelf, then he was dumped in a bag and transported here and left in that same bag for over an hour, during which time he fell on the floor under my dad's *ahem* watchful eye T_T ... then all of a sudden he's dumped into this 2.5 gallon tank that's a freakin' jungle compared to what he's lived in probably all his life... he probably thinks there's something lurking around every corner ready to ambush him and tear his poor fins up. So I wrapped a couple T-shirts around his tank, cause I was told that that would help him calm down and settle in... but it doesn't seem to be changing anything yet. He didn't eat well this morning either... had 4 wiggly lil' thawed wormies (betta's favorite food) for dinner though, with more vigor and movement I've seen from him yet (that's not saying much, really - it just means he hung around the top during feeding and eventually ate 4 worms instead of hiding under the moss after sampling one bite) which encourages me... but he's still a skinny little guy. I just hope he's not harboring some sickness I can't see. *sigh*
And you know what? These frozen bloodworms are HARD to feed. >< They come in these little cubes less than an inch square. The process: I peel off the foil on the top and use the single tine of a plastic fork (my alternate for toothpicks, which I don't have) to dig out a chunk, which I drop into a spoonful of his tank water to thaw. That normally leaves me with a big ol' pile of teensy little worms - today I probably got over a dozen - out of which I'm only supposed to feed him the nice juicy red ones. But I'm lucky to see anything remotely red in that clump. Most of them are brown and skinny and bleh. Anyway, then I stick one on the end of the fork tine and dangle it at the surface till he takes notice... he zooms in straight for it, and just when I think he's gonna finally show a little vigor, he freezes and just stares at it. 9_9 But eventually he does snatch it up and look for more. Today I managed to get him to take four - which, I'm told, is probably too much for a guy his size, but he still looks so skinny, and I was just happy to see him eating with SOME degree of eagerness. Still though... I swear, for every 'juicy' red worm he eats, half a dozen not-so-juicy ones get pitched. Oh well... he eats it. Works for me.
...yeah. Mmmmmm, bloodworms. Well, at least they don't stink.
Anyhow, he should perk up in a few days or so, after he gets into the routine and learns where those nummy little worms come from. :3 He BETTER, anyway. Bettas aren't supposed to be this scaredy and inactive. -_-*
And now, I am off to the Japanese club's special encore showing of the original Japanese version of The Ring. I almost want to see the American version of that already... :P
(edit~ forget The Ring. I got there and some Vietnam War movie was playing. -___-)
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 11/05/2002 07:07:00 PM
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