White Opal Bettas & Pink Glo Cory Cats

Vulcan

  Vulcan, my Samurai Betta, is so awesome. He shares my beautiful Roman tank with four black neon tetras, a couple of frogs, and two enormous emerald cory cats. It's hard to believe that my first samurai, Tam Lin, a white one, had only lived a couple of days, and I thought I'd never get another samurai. That was when I had my cube tank in an outside corner of the house. I have no problems with it since I moved it. Julius has been sharing it with Oscar and the Glo cat, Govinda. I still have Lennox, my Black Orchid, in the Druidic tank. He's a killer though, alone with the rabbit snail, The March Hare, who seems to be working out. 

Beautiful Betta

  I'm working on Hot Blood. Brother Norton has become something of a local celebrity with his newfound falsetto. He was neglecting his housekeeping duties, so the abbot had him helping with the sheep. He lost two lambs. The Lancaster doll show is today. I hope we can make the early bird. I'll try to get a video, but no promises with my new computer, a purple hp laptop that I really like. Anyway, I just had to try to snap a picture of Vulcan napping atop the mossy driftwood. I actually reviewed Samurai Betta at PetSmart I love them so much. I will be there tomorrow with my ten dollar scratch off coupon getting Arthur a harness he can't chew up. Lucky, he doesn't wander off. He chewed up his Buddy ID tag. He also loves eating paper and notebooks. Guess Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wasn't such a bad name, although Houdini would've been better. 

My Boys

  I've been so sick, my boys must know. The two of them slept until noon with me today, sandwiched between. They are such good brothers. They did take Ike's girlfriend, Nicki, last night. Ike has been in the den watching television. Vulcan, the samurai Betta, is doing great too. He's very active and loves his posh new home. I might suspect the cats, Rosey and Tat, killed Cupid if he had any wounds, but he didn't. Cupid was a bully, and those cats are huge mates. I'd pity the fool who picked on them. My last Himstedt, Lotus, the Egyptian, is coming today. I'm watching season three of Poldark. I will be starting my notes for IKE, my third musical satire, soon. TTYL... 

 

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The Silver Lining

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Frankie Says

  I'm a handsome baby. ✨

  Frankie is a good boy. His worst flaw is that he licks me. I have to kick him out of bed for that. I can't take the licking. 😝 He was on the rooftop of Marie's Chateau, they think there is a monster on the prowl. 

  Trumpy fish has cleaned all of the scum from my aquarium. I've had real algae problems in that tank. I had no idea Bubble Mollies were better housekeepers than catfish and snails. There are three cats in that tank, none of them work as hard as Melania and Trump. Who knew? 

 

O, Happy Day!

Lennox

   I had taken Frankie's advice only to have forgotten my dream again- gone. It has been a while since I've blogged about my fish. The only good things about this past cruel summer after WWII Weekend were my books and my aquariums. I enjoyed a fabulous healthy happy time with them. We had gone to the Poconos Saturday to eat at The Waterwheel. When I got up that morning everybodies' favorite Paradise Betta the Tetra Killer was dead. He got put in a seashell and placed in the fish cemetery along with Felix and Mars. I moved Julius to his tank as he was outgrowing the frog tank. He seems happier with the three catfish: Oscar, Ector, and Govinda. Tattoo, the esmerald cory cat, in the frog tank is big. I'd been feeling sorry for him being the only cat there and considered moving Oscar back to his original frog tank. He's my oldest fish: I've had him for seventeen months. I expect him to live to be five like my cats I've had in the past. He's just too happy with his Glo cat friends for me to upset, so I got another esmerald for Tat, Rose. They are overjoyed, and it is very pleasing to watch. I had only gone to the pet store to get the catfish plus another Glow Light tetra for Shini. She schools with the neons and black neons in Merlin's cylindrical tank, but Vishnu had eaten her kin: Buddah, Lassit, and Atif before I moved her. I felt sorry for little Shini and picked up Garrish for her. I'm glad I did, and glow tetras are so much fun to watch whirling around a tall tank. I have been wanting a black Betta for a while. I only seem to see them when I don't have the room for them. That's how I got stuck with that murderous bitch Juno, my first and last female. Like Juno Lennox is a Black Orchid. He is small and young, so he fits well with the frogs and cats. I could not resist him. He's gorgeous. They had a White Opal male too. Some day I would like to have one. 

Dreams 8/16

Dreamed I worked in an aquarium shop, and a little pink baby Betta was floating through the air. I caught him and put him back in his tank. I was cleaning out his tanks and others. At one point he and a cory cat were lying on the bottom of an empty tank which I hurried to fill with water. I had to climb up through a large empty aquarium through a slat in the wall to get to a friend of mine upstairs. She had a colorful circular rag rug on the floor. It was very boho. The next time I climbed up the place and woman had changed. There was a thick white Greek goat hair carpet on the floor which I admired and told her so. She said she had bought the shop. We were walking through the mall when I woke. 

Hello, Govinda!

I got another cory catfish for Vishnu's tank, Govinda makes three. She's an orange sun burst Glo Fish. Ector is my electric green one. He and Oscar, my oldest fish, an albino cory, have so much fun playing with Vishnu that I had to get another. Oscar started off in my smallest tank with a Betta alone. He's lived in all three of my tanks. He used to be white, but he's taken on a blush since moving in with Ector. He seems happy. I also did some rearranging, and got my frogs a paper flower Peijing. They love it. Not only do they have more room to swim and play, but they climb it, and hang out under the roots. Adorable! And, no post would be complete without a hello from Merlin, my big bumblebee Betta boy in the community tank. I now have six different types of Coryadoras cats. Ector, the electric green Glo Fish, is my favorite. My cats always ate what my other fish were eating, but I've been feeding these algae wafers, bloodworms, and catfish pellets too. The Betta and frogs go after the catfish pellets. Everybody seems to like them.  

Dreams 7/7

 

This dream took place at a large outdoor summer party. There were picnic tables set up outside. The house seemed to be a small ranch. I think I was pretty young. I was in the house playing when my friends DJ and his wife arrived. DJ had a plastic printed gift bag for me. Inside there was a square glittery sticker book with WOW! on the front cover and a lot of loose Barbie doll clothes. I thanked him. His wife was not the wife I know but a fat green woman with a constant scowl. I was in what might've been a laundry room with some other young boys. I had a small fishtank on a low shelf that was crammed with fish including three large albino cory catfish. Somehow I was transferring the fish from the small tank to a big tank on a top shelf. Above the large tank there was square lattice work that appeared to be woven from jute. There were tiny dwarf frogs climbing there. Now I was on a sun porch talking to some women who might've been gossiping. I think we were eating cake. Anyway, they were talking about my friend Tracey who was at the party. One was talking about Tracey's husband's mistress. She said that he had called it off with her. Another asked what had happened? The gossip said that the mistress had killed herself. Now, Tracey was in the adjoining kitchen looking in a cupboard. Her husband grabbed her and beat her head in against the cupboard door with a fist sized rock as if he was hammering a nail. 

  I had forgotten my dream from a couple of days ago, but I think it concerned my ex-sister-in-law. These are some of my regular Dream People: DJ, Denise, Tracey, and Karyn. There are others including people I do not know in real life but visit my dreams. 

Tank Talk

Welcome Vishnu, Krishna, Shiva, Shini, Lassit, & Atif!

Stone Free: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix

The lights were out while I was attempting a Memorial Day potato salad, (New World Order). I had so many candles going Barnabas would've felt at home. Got some new fish, Vishnu, the Paradise Betta, and Ganesha, the orange cory cat Glow Fish. If these don't take I'm switching to goldfish. Told the lady at Redner's that wanted me to come back for some cold wine, "Thank you, but I don't put up with commie BS". 

The Lights Went Out, Mama

Welcome Julius & Tam Lin!

Samurai Betta

My Beautiful Betta

 Since I've already gotten a request to meet Julius, here, he is. He's a double tailed Betta, quite young, this is close-up. Mordred is an alien, also young, and Merlin, the bumblebee, has grown a lot because he eats too much. I try to limit him, but he shares his tank with four voracious tetra, and they compete. Actually I only got that tank for my neons, Tom and Tom, because Felix was going to kill them, they stole his food out from under him. So, those two were in this tank for eight months before Merlin came along. I got Nimue and Morgana, the black neon tetras, the same time as Merlin, and he chases those two round and round the amphora; I think, they're playing. Julius has only been with me a couple of days, but he's eating, responsive, and sweet. He does chase Neptune, the big peppered cory cat, who ended up switching tanks with Oscar, Felix's original housekeeper. I can't catch Oscar to move him back, he's too happy in the cylindrical tank. He loves that big fake plant in there that has made my life much easier.