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Meet Tsume...
Sep. 30th, 2009 10:12 pmSo... I spent $10 on a fish yesterday... gah. (actually, only $8, maybe, since I had a store credit... anyway...)
He was so worth it.
I couldn't just leave him there, languishing in this little cup. Too beautiful to leave alone, and I am rebuilding the community tank (again... I think I've got the pH troubles sorted out now. Things work better when the water pump flows correctly.) in the bedroom, and he's fitting in just fine with the neons 1-6 for the moment.
He looks kindof purple here, but he's really pewter-colored, or Gunmetal gray. With a darker head, and pale streaks in his tail. His fins and tail have dark speckles and iridescent copper highlights. Amazing. He had me at 'blorp', and away from the fish store he came, with new tetra buddies. He's supposedly a 'super fighter', which is why he was twice the cost of the normal bettas and crowntails, but I have yet to see much of the fighting spirit... he's kinda drifted nonchalantly around the tank so far, flaring at the neons once or twice, but mostly ignoring them. Still figuring out the current in the tank, maybe. He'll already come right over to the front when somebody comes in the room, too. :)
Tsume is the gray wolf from the anime series 'Wolf's Rain'. The name fits him, so far.
On the tank... I finally got smart and put up a shade a month or so ago to keep the afternoon sun out of it. I think that's been most of the problem, because sun=algae=clogged pumps=dead fishies. Oops. So sorry to all the li'l fishies I've killed before I figured things out... it will be better now. Hoping to get some better photos soon, of both Tsume and Neons 1-6.. Very difficult to capture his true color in a photo, but I'll get the lighting right sooner or later.
He was so worth it.
I couldn't just leave him there, languishing in this little cup. Too beautiful to leave alone, and I am rebuilding the community tank (again... I think I've got the pH troubles sorted out now. Things work better when the water pump flows correctly.) in the bedroom, and he's fitting in just fine with the neons 1-6 for the moment.
He looks kindof purple here, but he's really pewter-colored, or Gunmetal gray. With a darker head, and pale streaks in his tail. His fins and tail have dark speckles and iridescent copper highlights. Amazing. He had me at 'blorp', and away from the fish store he came, with new tetra buddies. He's supposedly a 'super fighter', which is why he was twice the cost of the normal bettas and crowntails, but I have yet to see much of the fighting spirit... he's kinda drifted nonchalantly around the tank so far, flaring at the neons once or twice, but mostly ignoring them. Still figuring out the current in the tank, maybe. He'll already come right over to the front when somebody comes in the room, too. :)
Tsume is the gray wolf from the anime series 'Wolf's Rain'. The name fits him, so far.
On the tank... I finally got smart and put up a shade a month or so ago to keep the afternoon sun out of it. I think that's been most of the problem, because sun=algae=clogged pumps=dead fishies. Oops. So sorry to all the li'l fishies I've killed before I figured things out... it will be better now. Hoping to get some better photos soon, of both Tsume and Neons 1-6.. Very difficult to capture his true color in a photo, but I'll get the lighting right sooner or later.
