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tj_dragonbladeZakuro is having swim bladder issues. He's bloated and buoyant and quite clearly miserable. Goujun's had this same issue before, several times, but it's always passed within a couple days. Zakuro's going on a week. I've posted to the betta comm in hopes of getting some advice, and if anyone's got ideas, I'd love to hear. I don't want to lose him to this, if it can become that serious. Even if not, I still want him comfortable and normal again, the poor baby. He struggles so hard to get himself down from the surface and wedged under the leaves of his plant, but he always slips out eventually and bounces back up to the surface. *sigh*
Nataku has, by now, chewed off bits of all of his fins at one point or another. They even out quickly, but they're just shorter. And most of the blue in them is gone, having been on the outer edges where he decided to trim. -_- I gave him a new plant about a month ago, one that can actually hide him completely from view. He was pissed with me the first couple days, but eventually started checking it out and now I find him tunneled into it every morning, and several times throughout the day. Hee. ^_^
Kougaiji-sama also has shorter fins than he used to, but if he's biting, he's doing it in tidy careful little bits so it's not immediately obvious and it takes a little while to realize that no, his lovely finnage is not quite so magnificent as it used to be. No signs of rot or anything amiss with him, so I'm not worried.
Goujun spent most of the winter rather still and quiet, but has livened up a bit with the onset of spring, apparently. He postures at himself quite regularly, now, where he rarely would before. Also. He likes to stalk bubbles on the surface. He'll find a bubble, glide in carefully beneath it, follow it if it drifts, and then snap up and 'eat' it once he's done 'toying' with it. ^_^ Amuses the dickens out of me to watch him.
SexyMinion has acquired a betta, now, and so (since SexyMinion and I now share cubicle-slash-office space separate of the rest of the accounting department) I'm also keeping company with fishies at work. She house-sat for the office handyman/delivery guy while he was on vacation, and that involved babysitting his new office-betta, too. She fell in love with him, and joked about not giving him back, and the guy shrugged it off and said she can keep him, in thanks for the house-sitting. He's a dark blue crowntail, just gorgeous, and...apparently, his name is George. I've been sharing my own limited knowledge with her, since she's a complete newbie to fish and I'm only a partial-newbie, by now. I hope. ^_^; He blew her a bubble nest. A big one. Neither she nor the guy knew what it was, so when I told them, the guy goes out and buys her a female. >_< Uhm. I have done all in my power to discourage the idea of breeding them, thankyouverymuch, when neither she nor he's got any real idea what they'd be doing and no clue what to do with the babies in the end. It's a very pretty little female, though, white that frosts out onto red fins. SexyMinion named her Betsy. Currently the two of them are in adjacent bowls, and flirt with one another quite adorably. And George just keeps building and building away at his nest. ^_^ SexyMinion is totally enamoured with him/them, though, and it's very cool to have that point of commonality between us.
Anyway. Hopefully Zakuro will recover soon. I'm getting worried.
...They're all due for a cleaning tomorrow, too. Must make certain to work that in amongst all the Mother's Day obligations.
...Also. It's funny as hell, only sometimes not, to keep losing my spot at MY new compy here to either the husband or the kid, both of whom are rather dreadfully obsessed with the chess game. -_- Ah well.
Took my jeep into the shop early this week, too, damn the expense. There's still more to be done, but he'll have to go back next month. At least he's no longer leaving little green puddles wherever he parks, and he doesn't vibrate quite so badly when I brake.
Work is work; there are so many things that need doing that just don't get done. We've got two new people starting in the department in a couple weeks (that's why SexyMinion and I got re-located, officially. Unofficially it's got to do with her penchant for drama and my 'grouding' influence and the hope that quasi-isolation blended with my 'talent' for not engaging/fueling her drama will help her mature and grow and harness her potential and all; making room for two additional staff just happens to work out too), so hopefully everyone's plates will grow more manageable as they come on board and start absorbing overflow. Handling six companies with a seventh on the way demands more staff to keep up, thank you.
I've got fics to write that aren't getting worked on, either; my GouTens and my TenKen and my NiiKou and my DokuKou and the Hakuryuu/Hakkais and the 85s and... *sigh* I need to go to bed.
Nataku has, by now, chewed off bits of all of his fins at one point or another. They even out quickly, but they're just shorter. And most of the blue in them is gone, having been on the outer edges where he decided to trim. -_- I gave him a new plant about a month ago, one that can actually hide him completely from view. He was pissed with me the first couple days, but eventually started checking it out and now I find him tunneled into it every morning, and several times throughout the day. Hee. ^_^
Kougaiji-sama also has shorter fins than he used to, but if he's biting, he's doing it in tidy careful little bits so it's not immediately obvious and it takes a little while to realize that no, his lovely finnage is not quite so magnificent as it used to be. No signs of rot or anything amiss with him, so I'm not worried.
Goujun spent most of the winter rather still and quiet, but has livened up a bit with the onset of spring, apparently. He postures at himself quite regularly, now, where he rarely would before. Also. He likes to stalk bubbles on the surface. He'll find a bubble, glide in carefully beneath it, follow it if it drifts, and then snap up and 'eat' it once he's done 'toying' with it. ^_^ Amuses the dickens out of me to watch him.
SexyMinion has acquired a betta, now, and so (since SexyMinion and I now share cubicle-slash-office space separate of the rest of the accounting department) I'm also keeping company with fishies at work. She house-sat for the office handyman/delivery guy while he was on vacation, and that involved babysitting his new office-betta, too. She fell in love with him, and joked about not giving him back, and the guy shrugged it off and said she can keep him, in thanks for the house-sitting. He's a dark blue crowntail, just gorgeous, and...apparently, his name is George. I've been sharing my own limited knowledge with her, since she's a complete newbie to fish and I'm only a partial-newbie, by now. I hope. ^_^; He blew her a bubble nest. A big one. Neither she nor the guy knew what it was, so when I told them, the guy goes out and buys her a female. >_< Uhm. I have done all in my power to discourage the idea of breeding them, thankyouverymuch, when neither she nor he's got any real idea what they'd be doing and no clue what to do with the babies in the end. It's a very pretty little female, though, white that frosts out onto red fins. SexyMinion named her Betsy. Currently the two of them are in adjacent bowls, and flirt with one another quite adorably. And George just keeps building and building away at his nest. ^_^ SexyMinion is totally enamoured with him/them, though, and it's very cool to have that point of commonality between us.
Anyway. Hopefully Zakuro will recover soon. I'm getting worried.
...They're all due for a cleaning tomorrow, too. Must make certain to work that in amongst all the Mother's Day obligations.
...Also. It's funny as hell, only sometimes not, to keep losing my spot at MY new compy here to either the husband or the kid, both of whom are rather dreadfully obsessed with the chess game. -_- Ah well.
Took my jeep into the shop early this week, too, damn the expense. There's still more to be done, but he'll have to go back next month. At least he's no longer leaving little green puddles wherever he parks, and he doesn't vibrate quite so badly when I brake.
Work is work; there are so many things that need doing that just don't get done. We've got two new people starting in the department in a couple weeks (that's why SexyMinion and I got re-located, officially. Unofficially it's got to do with her penchant for drama and my 'grouding' influence and the hope that quasi-isolation blended with my 'talent' for not engaging/fueling her drama will help her mature and grow and harness her potential and all; making room for two additional staff just happens to work out too), so hopefully everyone's plates will grow more manageable as they come on board and start absorbing overflow. Handling six companies with a seventh on the way demands more staff to keep up, thank you.
I've got fics to write that aren't getting worked on, either; my GouTens and my TenKen and my NiiKou and my DokuKou and the Hakuryuu/Hakkais and the 85s and... *sigh* I need to go to bed.
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Date: 2007-05-16 07:20 am (UTC)I don't envy you the short-handedness at work. We've been running short for awhile, having a hard time finding the right people to fill the vacancies (much less the time to properly train them), and...yeah. It's Not Fun. Hope things do improve for you soon!