Ahaha.

[tj_dragonblade]

Behold!

For I am a dork, and have named my proud little warrior fish Nataku.

Come! Come, and meet my Lovely Baby!



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I'm so proud. ^_^ And enormously pleased that the pics turned out so well.

AJ's fish are doing good, too, even if their water won't stay clear. There's a couple pics of them in the gallery for good measure. That he took. I promised him I'd post them along with Mommy's fish pics. ^_^

Comments

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ♥

FISHMOMMY GLEE.

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

He's such a gorgeous, graceful little thing. He's stopped playing snobby with his food, now, and eats as soon as he's fed. Not into finger-nibbling yet, though. Hee.

He was definitely a good idea. Thanks for the advice and encouragement along the way. ^_^ *hugs*

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

*grins* Well I'm really really proud of you for your don't-say-die approach. Having your first fish be a sick one is a really big obstacle in terms of inspiration but I'm really proud of how you've dug your heels in about it all. Nataku seems that he'll become a long-lived, strong, distinctive fish.

I'm glad to hear he's eating well...and *do* tell me when he starts playing tricks with you. D likes to tug, Phinneas *sits* in my palm (don't expect Nataku to do this one - by pure virtue of his genetics as indicated by his coloring, he's too temperamental for that), and Pinto likes following my finger through the glass, and "escaping" from a loose cage of my fingers. All of which you could try with Nataku...though maybe make a "cage" of two fingers if you're dealing with a smaller tank. Or something.

I'm always here for advice but you are doing wonderfully on your own initiative. ♥ for ya.

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, temperamental's a good word. He's very stand-off-ish. Kind of has a 'Don't you touch me, Human!' stance whenever I bring a finger close to the glass. He backs off. Doesn't dart away, doesn't turn tail and disappear; just flicks his fins and floats backwards, watching me the whole time. Kind of a challenge, almost. ^_^ He definitely seems healthy, though, and sort of...arrogantly content. Like I said. He eats. He swims, he dances through and around the stalks of his little plant, he huffs and flares at his reflection, and he's even blown himself a nice little bit of a bubble-nest in one corner of the tank. Freaked me out when I first saw all the bubbles - 'OMG soap what the hell??' - and then I realized that he must have blown them all. ^_^; Eheh.

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

*grins* Bubble nests are love. So is sassiness. (I should make a colorbar. XD)

[nekonexus.livejournal.com]

eee! fish squeee~!

Nataku is smexy fish. *nodnod*

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

Hee. Very. Some of the things he does--okay, so I'm not a fish and I wouldn't know. But. Sometimes I can't help thinking some of his movements are less for swimming efficiency and more about showing off how graceful and pretty he can be. 'You. Human. Look at me - I'm beautiful.' *snrk* Humility isn't really part of his personality. ^_^

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

Humility isn't really part of his personality.

*laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaughs* I don't know that -any- betta knows what that word means.

[trensaddiction.livejournal.com]

Yay! Lovely fishy. Just make sure he understands that running off to fight demon kings is strictly forbidden... *hee*

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

*snickers* Ahh. Yes. Somehow, I don't think that will be a problem - he's far too fond of fighting with his own reflection at the moment. ^_^

...I should find a little monkey figurine, perhaps, to sit in the bottom of the aquarium to keep him company...

[trensaddiction.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I think a little monkey figurine would be positively poetic. *g*

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Oooo, so beautiful! You have reason to be proud, he's awesome! Great name, too.

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

Hee. I'm glad you think so. See, the Gundam boys have re-asserted their presence in my head the past few days, and Wufei keeps giving me this look ever since I settled on Nataku. I can't quite tell if it's offended, or amused, or secretly pleased - perhaps a bit of all three, maybe. Eheh. Or maybe, if I think about it, he's just relieved that I didn't name the fish Fei-fei. ^_^;

Anyway. Yes! Soo, so pretty. And a very distinct personality, too. ^_^ *is still thoroughly enamored with him*

[zalia.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a gorgeous fish ^^

And which Nataku is it named for? Saiyuki Nataku or Wufei's Nataku?

[tj-dragonblade.livejournal.com]

Hee. Wufei's Nataku! Mostly. Mythical reference too, but. Mostly it's a GW thing. Because his personality kind of reminds me of Fei. Plus, like, any time somebody writes Wufei with a pet in fanfic the pet is invariably named Nataku, so...yeah. Hence the 'I'm a Dork' clarification. ^_^; I dug up a little blurb or two on the myth behind the name first, though, just for reference.

[baka-gaijin.livejournal.com]

~ squeeees ~

NAAAAA-TAAAA-KUUUUUU!

I love Nataku... fishy or war god.