although i made this sideblog so i can let everyone know how much i love fish, i also made it because i really really need help! my darling betta, phasma, is sick and i’m at a loss of what to do. it’s something to do with her swim bladder, but i’ve tried fasting/feeding her peas/medication and nothing has worked. she swims nearly diagonal, falls to her side when she rests on the bottom of the tank, and overall has a hard time swimming. if any of you betta experts can help me out and point me in the right direction of helping phasma i would really appreciate it!!
How long have you had her? She might be getting old. Pet store bettas tend to be a bit inbred and don’t have great longevity.
It’s getting colder, are you certain her tank is at a safe temperature? You want a minimum of 78F or it can cause all kinds of issues.
If you can make the tank shallower and add more things for her to rest on top of, that should help her a bit.
Can she get to the top of the tank for air breaths without having to struggle?
So @decepticonsensual made a post earlier that reminded me – I never recorded my Decepticon/Miner’s song from In Memoriam (http://archiveofourown.org/works/2176587). So this is that post, about a year and a half later, for anyone who’s still interested.
Posting the lyrics too, since I didn’t enunciate brilliantly:
Well, I’ve never been to Iacon or the Rust Sea
Cause Kaon’s home enough for me
Got no need for Crystal City’s lights
When gunfire keeps me up at night
Oh, from Tarn I’ll never roam
The mines are Sonic Canyons all my own
And I’ll never see the world in its glittering gold
Though it’s broken and it’s rusted some now, I’m told
Cause when all’s said and done, I’m a worker at spark
And I think I always gotta be at home in the dark
Now here’s some words that I thought I’d never say
But give me Blaster City over Praxus any day
And Vos can keep their towers of glass
I’m more at home in the home of my caste
We’ll take your temples and we’ll smash them into bits
And worship the gladiators in their pits
And we don’t want the world in its glittering gold
Cause it’s broken and it’s rusted and it’s getting old
We’ve got ourselves a kingdom down here in the dark
And it’s here among my friends that I will lay down my spark
hey if you identify as a woman and you don’t shave your legs everyday and let your stubble grow free and natural for long periods of time could you reblog or like this post, I’m trying to make a point here, cause apparently I’m a weirdo for not shaving for weeks or months at a time
I shaved my legs for like a week when I started to grow past-puberty leg hair, then I stopped because I didn’t like how it felt when it was starting to regrow. Haven’t done it since, and that’s been like 7 years. Haven’t shaved my armpits, either, or anywhere else. Hair mostly has good reasons for growing where it does.
I did the math to figure out how many furry forest critters my one hunter cat actually killed. Here are the numbers:
She’s 10 years old, but she’s spent the last year as an inside only cat, so let’s mark her down as 9 years old. As an indoor-outdoor cat, she averaged around 4 kills a week. According to this study, she was probably killing 16 per week. At least.
There are 52 weeks in a year, so my cat was killing around 832 moles, voles, rats, and mice per year.
At 9 years old, her kill count was most likely around 7,488.
I’m lucky that she only went after rodents and not endangered animals. With a kill rate like that, this one cat could’ve wiped out an entire species.
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