Andie
Fish Addict
The day started innocently enough . . . you will see by my earlier posts that the biggest problem I had to begin with was tracking down some blackwater extract. Annoying, but hardly a pricey product, and certainly, eventually, attainable. Right?Well, yes! It is! Because I found some! A wonderful little LPS I thought closed down had actually just changed hands. It is now owned by a woman who dotes on her fish, and stocks accordingly. For a tiny store it carries an amazing assortment of aquarium supplies, and blackwater extract was one of them. I carried it to the cash, and saw the awful sign- 'Just arrived, female bettas!'
Me: (innocently excited) Females? Really? Nobody carries them anywhere now!
Girl: (deviously planning how to spring her trap) I know, we just got them in. Would you like to see?
Me: (thinking they'll be pretty drab but wanting to be polite) Oh, sure, thanks.
Aioutch
Would you not know it, but among the most GORGEOUS, dazzling assortment of girlies I have seen, is a perfectly formed copper, who, but for her juvenile size, could have been a spawn sibling of ALL of my girls. Seriously, she's identical. I fall for her that very second, and am not shy about telling them so.
So Dorothy (Dorrie) is set aside in her bag, and as I turn back to the cash, my eye falls on three male bettas set up top, away from the other jars of VTs. I ask "Oh, are those sick?" and the nice girl (who must be due for a huuge raise, since her subtle selling technique almost makes it seem like this was entirely my idea) says "no, no, those are the more expensive ones- the halfmoons and stuff."
Halfmoons? In a pet store?! NO pet store here sells anything but VTs. So I look, I see, I fall in love with an exquisite little copper BF delta male. As I haul him over to the counter, planning to house him in my empty tank, chattering away about how gorgeous he is, this nice girl mentions that oh, yes, there are two more males out back! And she'd be happy to get them for me!
So I wait, and she brings out - I was drooling by now - a canary yellow super delta male. My jaw dropped to my shoe tops, I am sure, and I just snatched him up. Miiiiine.
But wait- I realise, suddenly, I have not got a tank for another male. Well, I could just get another little Kritter Keeper . . . oh, but what if I got that nice 5 gal with the hood, light and everything, and just divided it so the boys could live together? Well yes that would be much smarter, but that means I need new substrate to hold up the divider, and plants so they feel at home, and . . .
Aiee.
Don't ask me how much I spent, but let's just say I really, REALLY need a job, now . . . but in the meantime, I'll lower stress by admiring my lovely new boys and girl
Pics will come as soon as I reformat my hard drive and my camera works again
Me: (innocently excited) Females? Really? Nobody carries them anywhere now!
Girl: (deviously planning how to spring her trap) I know, we just got them in. Would you like to see?
Me: (thinking they'll be pretty drab but wanting to be polite) Oh, sure, thanks.
Aioutch
Would you not know it, but among the most GORGEOUS, dazzling assortment of girlies I have seen, is a perfectly formed copper, who, but for her juvenile size, could have been a spawn sibling of ALL of my girls. Seriously, she's identical. I fall for her that very second, and am not shy about telling them so.
So Dorothy (Dorrie) is set aside in her bag, and as I turn back to the cash, my eye falls on three male bettas set up top, away from the other jars of VTs. I ask "Oh, are those sick?" and the nice girl (who must be due for a huuge raise, since her subtle selling technique almost makes it seem like this was entirely my idea) says "no, no, those are the more expensive ones- the halfmoons and stuff."
Halfmoons? In a pet store?! NO pet store here sells anything but VTs. So I look, I see, I fall in love with an exquisite little copper BF delta male. As I haul him over to the counter, planning to house him in my empty tank, chattering away about how gorgeous he is, this nice girl mentions that oh, yes, there are two more males out back! And she'd be happy to get them for me!
So I wait, and she brings out - I was drooling by now - a canary yellow super delta male. My jaw dropped to my shoe tops, I am sure, and I just snatched him up. Miiiiine.
But wait- I realise, suddenly, I have not got a tank for another male. Well, I could just get another little Kritter Keeper . . . oh, but what if I got that nice 5 gal with the hood, light and everything, and just divided it so the boys could live together? Well yes that would be much smarter, but that means I need new substrate to hold up the divider, and plants so they feel at home, and . . .
Aiee.
Don't ask me how much I spent, but let's just say I really, REALLY need a job, now . . . but in the meantime, I'll lower stress by admiring my lovely new boys and girl
Pics will come as soon as I reformat my hard drive and my camera works again
Please...
) ) is to find somebody else in the dorms who has a Kodak camera, and consequently the software on a computer that actually works, and just use their comp to upload my pics. So the hunt begins 
Dorrie - sorry to hear of your loss.
Dorrie.
