Fish.

[greenstorm]

Okay. I have a fish. He's not at my house yet (the aquarium is set up waiting for him to arrive tomorrow) but he's very cool. I walked into Big Al's and looked at the bettas, as I do everywhere, and he came up to the edge of his bowl and tried to bite me a number of times. His name is Cockbite, which is British slang for backstabber, but if mom asks he's just 'Prettyfish'.

He's got a white body and dark irridescent multicoloured fins, with black flecks all over.

Our water Ph at the moment is around 6.8-7.

I may return tomorrow with another fish as well, the other of whom would be named Angel, if the fates so decree. That one is pure white, huge fins, with a hint of greenish blue in a crescent on the tailfin, and spunky but not to Cockbite's extent.

I look forward to watching them eat wiggly things.

Down/up note: my plants are here. They didn't get watered, and so we're going into emergency maintenance mode. I'm not sure the lemon, the avacado, or the diefenbachia will durvive. :( I feel like a terrible person. They would be killed off, and have been tortured, because what? I was busy? :P

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[rainbowk.livejournal.com]

anna_would went to the pet store yesterday to buy crickets to either feed to her venus fly trap or, alternately, release into our kitchen (she's been doing a bit of both, I'm not clear on why the second is necessary, although she claims it was an accident). But while she was there. They gave her some kind of free scratch-card thingy and she won a betta! So... now we have a small fishy in our place too. I don't know if he has a name yet. Hey, I should post this in my journal...

[greenstorm.livejournal.com]

Cool. Take good care of him!

Crickets are cool. I like the sounds they make.

A venus flytrap big enough to eat crickets? Wow.