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[DE42]

• The Siamese fighting fish, commonly known as the betta, is a popular fish in the aquarium trade. Bettas are a member of the gourami family and are known to be highly territorial. They really do best as solitary fish, and will fight with other male bettas.
• The plan now is to add a few bottom cleaners, and maybe a small cluster of neon tetra types.

Purple hatchet fish is what I used when I had a betta in a 10gal. That and a couple of nerite snails.

 

[Momof4]

Purple hatchet fish is what I used when I had a betta in a 10gal. That and a couple of nerite snails.

We have some sort of shrimp and a snail. I put the tank on our kitchen counter and love watching them.

 

[CarolM]

Yes. She could only apologize and say that she would keep better track of the assignments that were and weren't completed. But the work still has to be done for grades..
Every assignment. For 2 weeks.

[emoji85] Good luck. Hopefully your daughter will decide to do it on time so she does not have to play catch up.

 

[JoesMum]

Not sure if the pictures worked. Anyway. Hope everyone is well.

They did and they’re great!

 

[CarolM]

I dug up a nest of leopard eggs this afternoon. Thank goodness I don't have triskaidekaphobia!

Whahaha. I take it there were 13 eggs.

 

[CarolM]

• The Siamese fighting fish, commonly known as the betta, is a popular fish in the aquarium trade. Bettas are a member of the gourami family and are known to be highly territorial. They really do best as solitary fish, and will fight with other male bettas.
• The plan now is to add a few bottom cleaners, and maybe a small cluster of neon tetra types.

I had a sneaky suspicion. [emoji1]

 

[Kristoff]

Waves! We are doing great! Busy as usual. My husband has been in China and I’m holding the fort down.
We are leaving for Hawaii in a week so

I’m trying to get things in order for our house sitter. She has a zoo to take care of over here! She sleeps here so I need to deep clean, especially our room. That’s always the last place I take care of because nobody sees it[emoji4]

Hope you’re doing well!!

Hawaii sounds fun! Glad you could find a zoo keeper, lol.

 

[Kristoff]

Lovely post cards. Thank for sharing. Are you enjoying the trip so far?

I’m enjoying Prague very much.
How are you all, Carol?

 

[Kristoff]

Well I am hosting a meal here at work for those of us that had to work today. Not many, just 6 of us but it will be fun.

Hosting a meal for 6? I’d be panicking now!!

 

[Kristoff]

Haven't had a chance to work on it much. Been trying to help my daughter catch up on her school work. She has managed to fall almost 2 weeks behind on school work and for whatever reason the teacher didn't realize that she was falling behind.

Boo to the teacher. Is there even such a thing as “falling behind” at that age?
Unfortunately, we also get homework and occasionally things to finish. And I don’t quite believe in homework until they’re 8-9.

 

[Kristoff]

It is a beautiful rainy day here. We had rain last night and then it was mostly overcast the whole day with tonight having a nice drizzle of rain. Now we just need it to carry on raining everyday or every night for the rest of the winter too. Yayyyyyy

From Karen Blixen:

When in Africa in March the long rains begin after four months of hot, dry weather, the richness of growth and the freshness and fragrance everywhere are overwhelming.
But the farmer holds back his heart and dares not trust to the generosity of nature, he listens, dreading to hear a decrease in the roar of the falling rain. The water that the earth is now drinking in must bring the farm, with all the vegetable, animal and human life on it, through four rainless months to come.
It is a lovely sight when the roads of the farm have all been turned into streams of running water, and the farmer wades through the mud with a singing heart, out to the flowering and dripping coffee-fields. But it happens in the middle of the rainy season that in the evening the stars show themselves through the thinning clouds; then he stands outside his house and stares up, as if hanging himself on to the sky to milk down more rain. He cries to the sky: “Give me enough and more than enough. My heart is bared to thee now, and I will not let thee go except thou bless me. Drown me if you like, but kill me not with caprices. No coitus interruptus, heaven, heaven!”

 

[Kristoff]

Here’s one or two pix of Alpha enjoying his 10 gallon palace..

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Beautiful! Would he get a little lonely in that big space?

 

[Kristoff]

Are you going to get him a friend? Or is this a species that doesn't do well with others?

SNAP

 

[Kristoff]

I dug up a nest of leopard eggs this afternoon. Thank goodness I don't have triskaidekaphobia!

Oh, did you find 12 eggs? Or is it the 14th time you had to do it?

 

[Kristoff]

• The Siamese fighting fish, commonly known as the betta, is a popular fish in the aquarium trade. Bettas are a member of the gourami family and are known to be highly territorial. They really do best as solitary fish, and will fight with other male bettas.
• The plan now is to add a few bottom cleaners, and maybe a small cluster of neon tetra types.

Answers my question too.

 

[CarolM]

I’m enjoying Prague very much.
How are you all, Carol?

All good. It is raining so we are happy.

 

[CarolM]

From Karen Blixen:

That is really beautiful.

 

[JoesMum]

It is a beautiful rainy day here. We had rain last night and then it was mostly overcast the whole day with tonight having a nice drizzle of rain. Now we just need it to carry on raining everyday or every night for the rest of the winter too. Yayyyyyy

Yippee! [emoji299]️

 

[JoesMum]

Beautiful! Would he get a little lonely in that big space?

I think they’re a bit like tortoises. Happier alone with nobody to fight off!

 

[JoesMum]

Good afternoon all. So here we ate in Devon - the extreme South West of England... the opposite side to where we live.

Yesterday, I caught the train to Southampton (which is pretty much dead centre on the South Coast) and stayed with daughter.

We had a lovely time watching Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella last night. The ballet is set to the traditional music by Prokofiev, but the story is set in wartime London with Prince Charming being an American Pilot... and a male Angel instead of the fairy godmother. It was brilliant! The dance was so good!

This morning we headed West through fog and driving rain. This was a shame because the views should have been glorious. We drove over Salisbury Plain which is where Stone Henge and other stone circles can be seen in better weather

The little village of Appledore, where we are staying, is on the West coast. It was dry until about half an hour ago, so now we hace retreated inside for hot drinks.

It’s got very narrow streets and loads of colourful cottages. You’ll have to wait for the rain to stop for pictures of ours

Some postcards




Son is 6’6” (2 metres tall)


The tide was out...