One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish....wait. Not so fast.

[merimask]

Nothing much going on, it's a quiet night here. I'm longing for a real "wrath-of-god" thunderstorm here, but everything keeps fizzling out as it heads north and all we're getting is a damp drizzle that's chilly and not sexy at all. It's supposed to stay this way for a while, this week. *le sigh* So much for cycling.


Upon returning from Las Vegas I found, to my chagrin, that my favorite red male betta committed some kind of freaky wrathful harakiri move sometime while I was gone. I bought him years ago when I first started reading "Inuyasha", and just like IY he was a grouchy, stubborn, lively little guy. I never really named him but I always thought of him as "Inu". The little bastard had a firey temper and would regularly work himself up into a little fishy froth, making angry faces and flashing his fins at the blue betta next to him (who was not nearly as pissy and thereby twice as irritating, I imagine). I changed the water in their respective bowls before I left but neglected to separate the bowls, and so my poor red fish, unable to stand the sight of his azure enemy (so close and yet so far) flung himself from his bowl in a fit of pique.

I can only hope he met a quick demise in the jaws of one of our higher-functioning housepets. I have to imagine this is so, since I can't find him anywhere, and my cat Dinah seems to be looking up at the fish tanks with a little more interest than she's shown in the past. They are out of her reach, but she seems to be thinking that tasty things rain down from them, from time to time. I hope he didn't have time to lay there gasping, his tiny fish brain regretting in some rudimentary fashion that he chose the path of anger and destruction. Rather, I hope he thought he was finally going to get that damn blue fish when he made the fateful leap, and that his fishy little heart beat as fiercely as a Samurai's! I think that'd be the perfect way for him to go. Better than some slow wasting disease or fin rot (so undignified!). He was a pretty old betta, as bettas go, almost five years old! It was fitting that he died fighting.

So, today I bought a new friend. I wanted another red fish, but PetsMart was all out of red fish (oh, there were a few, but they had a decidedly pinkish cast and a meek demeanor and so I rejected them). I picked a white fish with pale blue fins that are ~very~ long with pretty white tips. He seems rather aloof, and could care less about his blue neighbor (who seemed much more belligerent than usual when he saw his new white fish nemesis...perhaps the fact that the new fish hasn't been nearly as vehement with his threats is giving the blue one false confidence!). The white one just sits there calmly, not moving, staring at the blue fish in an insolent manner (if fish can be said to be "insolent"). I'm hoping that this new fish will be less like IY and more like his wiser brother...slow to anger, but beautiful and terrible in his wrath.

So I named him "Sess" and I hope he lasts as long as "Inu" did. :-)

Comments

[lotus-faerie.livejournal.com]

Man, I hope so, too. I used to have two blue bettas, Fish Sticks, and his successor, Fish Sticks II. Fish Sticks II died badly by getting caught under his treasure chest and not being noticed (since I was away for a couple days) until it was too late.

*hug* Good look with Sess. :)

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! :-) "Fish Sticks"...that's one undignified fish name. My brother once had a goldfish named "Elvis", but I like your fish name even better.

[empath-eia.livejournal.com]

I feel sorta bad for laughing my ass off at this. The fish died... but OMG IN SUCH A FUNNY WAY!!!

*snickers and snorts helplessly*

[merimask.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how I felt about it. :-) When I saw the empty bowl I knew immediately what had happened and all I could do was roll my eyes and say "Oh you stupid, stupid fish,".

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Like empath_eia, I feel bad laughing, but it would have been such an Inuyasha way to go.

alm82 has a couple of betas, a firy tempered red and a flirtatious lavendar, appropreately named Inuyasha and Jakotsu, respectively. IY flairs like crazy at Jakotsu, while Jakotsu seems to, well, be Jakotsu. XD It really is amusing. XD

OOOOHHH!!!! Before I forget for the umpteeth time.... Those wire display racks that you use to display your prints at shows....where does one get something like that?

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Really, it was the best way for poor Inu to shuffle off this mortal coil...he was such a stupid angry little fish! :-)

AND! I used the wire file racks that you can find in most large office supply chain stores (I got mine at Office Max). Look in the section that has the stuff for the top of your desk...it's among the organizers. Get the kind that slopes in graduated steps, makes it easier for people to see the number of prints you have. They stack inside each other too, so they pack well. :-)

[rumdiculous.livejournal.com]

LMAO

Sorry about your loss, but those fish always pick some crazy way to die. And he was named after Inuyasha, no wonder he was a pissy little thing.

Hee, I like the idea of a white fish named Sess. That tickles me for some reason.