fish!

random question. do you have pet fish?

it looks like some of your work has been partly betta or goldfish inspired. I used to have all kinds of fish when I was a teenager. I had thirty aquairiums in my room! So I do have fish in my head.
Right now we are the proud owners of one carnival goldfish named Foil Face, and about a zillion guppys.
..And Vantid’s Betta lives on the kitchen table.

I have knowen people with more, way more, I knew one guy with over 150 at one point, ranging in size from 5 gal to 150 gal. He had everything one could imagine. He had killie fish that he had to spawn himself just to keep haveing them becaus eof their short life spans. He had a pair of iscars he spawned. Heck his wife left him over them, there was more I imagine as well. Then one day he saw Orchids and decided he liked them so he just stopped taking care of the fish, they all died sad horrible deaths, then I stopped talking to him, the a$$.

What crap. I hope he catches an itchy rash and it never heals.

What crap. I hope he catches an itchy rash and it never heals.

Woe be the one who you deign Karma too.

Its like she’s trying to speak to me!

~Finding Nemo

Hey, once I get my tank up to speed with plants (growing them takes time, and I have to populate a little 6gallon nano as a Christmas gift) and I start to have to trim them up I wouldn’t mind! What kinds of plants do you keep?

pffft- the kind you find in, sadly, Petsmart. Mostly the Arrowleaf ones…I had one of those spawn a new plant and some other one that’s broader leaf arrow looking but very pretty- also spawned a new being because a leaf broke off at the juncture where it wwould still grow roots. I’d have to take pictures. But I WOULD love to get some semi-foreign plants in my tank that I can’t find in the local pet stores.

trimmings are wonderful and I can’t WAIT to see that website!

**EDIT: Oooooh- you’re EVIL!! I can spend a fortune on that aquabid website…shipping itself is the cot of what I want but understandably these are live animals…ooooooh- evil evil nam!

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Ok, I guess guppies wouldn’t be too hard to care for… Mine aren’t fluffy little exotic fish (no offense I hope). I’ve got gar, carp, bluegill, a sauger, and a ton of random minnows. I used to have bass, but they died after their filter shut down and I didn’t know about it until too late. The gar are half a foot long (will be over a 4 feet long when full grown), the carp are about 4″ (though they can get in excess of 100 lbs). And I have a 6″ catfish. These fish are pigs. They dirty the water constantly. Definately not house fish. They don’t need heating though. They are easily able to sustain both winter and summer temps. Missouri natives are awesome. I could never settle for store bought. All mine are strait out of the wilds. The gar are my favorite. Streamline killers, but so gentle otherwise! The’ve never bitten me. Sorry, I could talk about my fishies forever. I love them and am so proud of my collection. Fish mean something entirely different to you when you’ve had to catch each one individualy and then in addition, slave away all year catching feeder minnows for them (for the predators anyway). Yeah… Love. It means standing up to your hips in ice water in the dead of winter with a sein net because your toothy fish babies are hungry! And then there are the darters.. No fish is more fun than these swim-bladderless little devils. They are relatively inteligent as far as fish go. Small, but they know they are the only true masters of the tank floor (“crawdads, move over!”). I’ve got one, a real beaut, that I took from Current river on a vacation with my b/f a year and a half ago. He survived the 100 degree un-air conditioned car and the clorinated icecubes that we threw into the bucket later to cool him down. He is now living happily in my 20 gal tank as sub-apha to the other male. They need some more females…
Whether any of my fish breed or not, is impossible to know. Children and eggs are gobbled up like candy.