i always get this weird impulse to slap the melons in the grocery store and without thinking i almost slapped this huge fuckign watermelon in someone elses cart while……he was …….standing beside it….
I work in produce some days, and some days I DO slap the melons
i walked out of my apartment this morning and a five year old kid was playing outside and immediately he pointed at my aparment and was like “some chinese people used to live there. now someone else does”
and i was like… you mean that one? and pointed at my apartment, the one i literally just walked out of
and he was like “yeah”
and i was like……….. yeah…
the other day I was coming back from work and as I’m walking up to my apartment, he runs up to me with two fistfuls of grass and yells DON’T STEP ON THIS GRASS IT’S FOR THE BUNNIES and drops it in the middle of the sidewalk and i’m just like okay!! 😀
this morning I left for work and I heard a tapping noise, so I looked up and he was in the second floor window waving goodbye
today I was walking to my door and he ran up to me and yelled DID YOU KNOW SOMEONE IS COMING and i was like WHOA NO WHO’S COMING
and he tells the girl beside him YOU TELL HIM so she tells me “there’s a guide coming! and he’s invisible!” and ofc i’m like WHOA THAT’S SO COOL and the boy tells me that he’s arriving by helicopter. and the helicopter is also invisible and you can’t hear it either! so I ask why he’s coming and they tell me it’s because it’s his birthday and he’ll be here at exactly 6:00
they’re gonna ring my doorbell at 6 so I can tell the invisible man in the invisible helicopter happy birthday before he flies away
so i said happy birthday to him and they showed me his invisible helicopter and then informed me that I misheard them and that the invisible man was, in fact, God
okay so TODAY i came home from work and he came up to me and was like “i rang your doorbell earlier” and so I told him I wasn’t home and asked what he needed me for and he was like
“i had a question”
so I was like alright what was your question
and he goes “do you have a kitchen?” and I was like… uhh yeah I’ve got a kitchen
– sleeping too much or not at all
– eating too much or too little
– sounding disinterested in everything
– being spaced out a lot
– rambling a lot or not talking at all
– losing track of time
– making cynical comments, usually about yourself
– pushing people away
– tend to rubbing your eyes and head a lot
– avoiding eye contact
– always being shaky
– avoiding certain conversations
I would seriously steer clear of this person. I know next to nothing about fish and even I apparently know more about betta care than this person. It’s possible they’re very well experienced and knowledgeable on saltwater fish and just don’t know anything about freshwater fish but the fact that they’re that clueless about the care of a very commonly kept freshwater fish is to me a red flag.
@connorstomacock do you want to add anything at all? Fish aren’t really my forte.
– Dark
The “puddle” misconception comes from the fact that wild betta often live in rice paddies, and clueless [Westerners] think they’re shallow when they can actually be rather deep. Don’t listen to that guy at all! 10 gallons is fine for your little guy
-Nick
Long-tailed bettas shouldn’t really be kept in tanks over ~18″ deep because they need to surface and breathe air occasionally, so you don’t want them fighting to get to the surface. I wouldn’t suggest a short-tailed betta in a tank deeper than 24″, either. You don’t want to see them having to put considerable energy into getting to the surface quickly, it should be visibly easy. Also, a betta kept in a bare 10g would probably be nervous due to lack of cover. Aside from those specific exceptions, no, a large tank will not kill a betta. They can live in a puddle, yes, but that doesn’t mean they should. It doesn’t mean they usually do, either. They can survive being trapped in a puddle, but their natural habitat is something like a pond, a slow-moving creek, or a pool of water in a swamp.
There is no such thing as too large of a tank unless you’re dealing with very small fry and can’t fill the entire tank with the proper density of food. It is impossible to kill a fish with too much space.
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