Long Distance Friendships :-(

[Nicola]

Hmm Yeah, it seems unlikely that we would have Pasos over here as they are mainly common in America aren't they?

 

[SourRoses]

Ohh.. well.. They're from Puerto Rico and Columbia so are common there.. but we probably have the highest number because of the previous market.

Eating all of the violet crumbles.... meany!!!!


My hair is reddish brown and is straight with a little natural wave... although its a little messed up right now from the perm my mom insisted on giving e that did not go very well

But I managed to straighten it and smooth it enough that it was not too bad.. and then its been relaxing a bit.. so now it looks almost like my natural wave.. hehe

 

[SourRoses]

Did I mention the horrible thing that happened to my new fishie today?

Thats why Ive been so slow responding.. off watching youtube horses and msic to distract myself so I dont

 

[Nicola]

Quote:

what happened?

 

[SourRoses]

This was one of the males I got for mom ....

Silver

His female...

Shimmer

Next boy...

Tonto

His female...

Glitter

 

[Nicola]

Oooooooooooooooo Shiny O.O I like shiny things.. pretty fishie

 

[SourRoses]

Well... we hand made custom partitions for our 20 gallon tanks some time ago... that way we can have multiple bettas in each as showcase tanks.
Its worked very well in the past.. very safe for the fishes and lets water filter a bit. See, each partition is made of acrylic and has very small holes drilled in at intervals in a line at the bottom, so the water can flow through and exchange.
All of our fish have done well with these.. so I dont know what happened.

But while I was out for a bit... I came back to find Glitter had tried to get into Tinkerbells (previous female) compartment... through the very small hole! She *somehow* managed to get her head through... and got stuck

Instead of going back.. she kept shoving herself further into it

When I got there... her body was wedged into this hole up to where her fins start... and her gills were clamped down by the sides so she couldnt breathe that way, and the surface was a long way up.
I desperately threw the hood off the tank and tried to gently shove her through... only every time I pressed on her nose with my finger, her body bent away. She started wriggling and fighting me and only managed to get her body shoved in deeper. Her scaples were starting to get sloughed off by the inner edge of the drilled hole (the outsides had all been smoothed).

I tried and tried but I couldnt get her out... and I thought she was going to die on me

Then I saw this long thin strip of foam I had used for something previously... and I looped that to form a little noose... and stuck that over her head. At forst it didnt work because she was wedged in so tight... then out of desperation I took the whole partition out of there (leaving 2 other fish loose together) and held it so her body was just in the water.. trying to snap the acrylic. It wouldnt snap.. so once again, I made a noose out of the foam.. but this time I pinched it tight so I felt like I was squishing her.. and held her very firmly around the belly with it while I shoved her backwards while I was holding the partition in place. I had to be very rough.. and I could feel her scales being roughed and see them peeling off.. and she was wriggling.. but I pushed her 3 times, and then it was just her head.

I really hurt her getting her out of there.. but it was that or she would have suffocated or died from stress. Se has a gouge in her back that looked pink for a while and is missing a whle patch of scales in her back... for a while I thought she wasnt going to make it.. she was panting pretty hard.

But later she calmed down and swam around more and stuff. She ate some dinner and seems to be relaxed. She is swimming pretty normaly now, and has done a little flaring at the others.. so I'm sure shes going to make it... its just really yucky to have to hurt your brand new baby like that. And she is missing those scales

 

[Nicola]

Oh no!

Poor silly lil fishie!! Hopefully she heals fast D:, Might need to move her away from the rest of them for a while though so she doesn't do that again O.O

For some reason when i had Betta's they didnt last long

they lasted 8 months tops.. and i would keep their water clean and stuff but oh well, i don't really have time for fishie at the moment

 

[whiteflare]

I've thought about what it must've looked like to you.

I honestly have no clue. I've never noticed a thing about any horses being put down (I'm sorry

). I mostly scan through pages for pictures, I never read any of the posts, or I woould be there in front of my computer "catching up" all day!

I'm sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings, but to be honest my feelings were pretty hurt too when you told me I had no compassion. Over the years, I have actually learned to ignore my feelings, because my feelings get me in bad places. People tell me I always act like some kind of... oh, I don't know, but that's only because showing my true feelings has gotten me into a lot of trouble before.

I just thought you were sharing photos of your horses and wanted to make a bit of a joke about you two horse nuts as we'd talked about it before...

I totally understand if you don't want to talk to me after what happened.
Next time, I'm not going to jump into a conversation without first reading about what's happened.

 

[LittleChickenLady]

Thank you Liz.
I really wasn't trying to be hateful, I just had to point out why it was such a big deal you made that comment.
As you already know, it bothered me a lot, but I appreciate you thinking about it and coming back to post.

Lesson learned.