sometimes when a person loves a character very much they name a fish after it
So, uh. Some of you (read: exactly 0 of you) might know that I keep betta fish.
This is a thing that some people are really really serious about! I KNOW RIGHT. Like, some of us spend hundreds of dollars setting up beautiful tanks and buying heaters and filters and taking care of little teeny tiny fish that you can't even pick up or give belly-rubs to. (You know, like, those fish that puff up when you put them in front of a mirror? Sometimes people keep them in tiny glass cubes? Hundreds of dollars.) We're kind of an interesting bunch. You probably don't want to be invited over to our houses because we'll introduce you to our fish like they're children or something.
Anyway, so. Yeah. This is my weirdo hobby.
I have these two fish named Kal and Veetor. they're very in love, don't judge
I brought Kal home at the beginning of April. (He's one of eight. SERIOUSLY, I KNOW.) Kal was imported from ~*Thailand*~, which is neat, and his former owner sold him to me for an absolutely ludicrous sum of money a very reasonable price when she realized she couldn't take care of him anymore.
He has ginormous fins and acts like a total badass. This is his old tank:
However, being kind of a priss, he decided after about a month that he didn't like the decor, and expressed the sentiment by chewing off half his tail. (I wish I was kidding. This is a thing they do.)
So now he's in a slightly smaller, more out-of-the-way tank next to another betta named Isaac Clarke.
Anyway, about a month after bringing him home I decided that evidently if I was going to have a Kal'Reegar, I'd need a Veetor'Nara too, because you know, obvs.
Veetor ended up being a Petsmart purchase. I found him in a filthy, half-empty cup near the back of the shelf, brought him home and put him in some fresh water. (Some betta keepers like to buy half-dead fish and nurse them back to health. idk, guys. I actually brought him home with another betta who'd had his tail literally ripped in half, and THAT was fun to heal.) He was pretty sick for the first couple days and wouldn't eat, but eventually he turned around.
(disclaimer: ideally bettas should not be kept in bowls unless you're crazy and like doing water changes every other day. (Like me.) Besides that, some bettas (like Kal) flourish in smaller spaces, while others will shred their fins after a few weeks. Once Veetor had been at home for a handful of days, he started going stir-crazy, so I moved him into Kal's old tank.)
He's all sorts of shiny and awesome.
Seriously, what a charmer tho.
SO YEAH. This is what some people choose to do with their time-- buy fish and name them after quarians, I guess? Eventually Kal and Veetor will be living in a divided 10-gallon tank and I will probably make it look like Rannoch or something.
fuck you Kal and Veetor get space-married and adopt geth babies
This is a thing that some people are really really serious about! I KNOW RIGHT. Like, some of us spend hundreds of dollars setting up beautiful tanks and buying heaters and filters and taking care of little teeny tiny fish that you can't even pick up or give belly-rubs to. (You know, like, those fish that puff up when you put them in front of a mirror? Sometimes people keep them in tiny glass cubes? Hundreds of dollars.) We're kind of an interesting bunch. You probably don't want to be invited over to our houses because we'll introduce you to our fish like they're children or something.
Anyway, so. Yeah. This is my weirdo hobby.
I have these two fish named Kal and Veetor. they're very in love, don't judge
I brought Kal home at the beginning of April. (He's one of eight. SERIOUSLY, I KNOW.) Kal was imported from ~*Thailand*~, which is neat, and his former owner sold him to me for an absolutely ludicrous sum of money a very reasonable price when she realized she couldn't take care of him anymore.
He has ginormous fins and acts like a total badass. This is his old tank:
However, being kind of a priss, he decided after about a month that he didn't like the decor, and expressed the sentiment by chewing off half his tail. (I wish I was kidding. This is a thing they do.)
So now he's in a slightly smaller, more out-of-the-way tank next to another betta named Isaac Clarke.
Anyway, about a month after bringing him home I decided that evidently if I was going to have a Kal'Reegar, I'd need a Veetor'Nara too, because you know, obvs.
Veetor ended up being a Petsmart purchase. I found him in a filthy, half-empty cup near the back of the shelf, brought him home and put him in some fresh water. (Some betta keepers like to buy half-dead fish and nurse them back to health. idk, guys. I actually brought him home with another betta who'd had his tail literally ripped in half, and THAT was fun to heal.) He was pretty sick for the first couple days and wouldn't eat, but eventually he turned around.
(disclaimer: ideally bettas should not be kept in bowls unless you're crazy and like doing water changes every other day. (Like me.) Besides that, some bettas (like Kal) flourish in smaller spaces, while others will shred their fins after a few weeks. Once Veetor had been at home for a handful of days, he started going stir-crazy, so I moved him into Kal's old tank.)
He's all sorts of shiny and awesome.
Seriously, what a charmer tho.
SO YEAH. This is what some people choose to do with their time-- buy fish and name them after quarians, I guess? Eventually Kal and Veetor will be living in a divided 10-gallon tank and I will probably make it look like Rannoch or something.
fuck you Kal and Veetor get space-married and adopt geth babies