Meet BUBBLES the BETA
I got a fish! I'm not entirely sure why, but it seemed like a really good idea at the time. And it still does. I got really excited about the idea when someone read the message on the underside of the lid to their drink and it said that if you keep a goldfish in a dark room for a long enough period of time it will turn white. Naturally I wanted to get a goldfish as try this as soon as possible. But I decided eventually to get a beta. There were several reasons for this. One is that my family had a beta once before, and it was by far the longest living, toughest fish in our tank. Secondly, betas are meant to live alone. If you put more than two of them together one of them will inevitably kill the other. They are Siamese fighting fish after all. And finally, betas were the only fish that the pet store I went to was selling. So I have a blue and red male Siamese fighting fish in a one-gallon tank on top of my desk. I designed the tank to have a blue and purple theme (blue gravel, purple trim on the tank, blue "plants"), although I'm theoretically going to get a real plant to help clean and oxygenate the water eventually, and that will of course be green. And yes, I named my male Siamese fighting fish Bubbles. I think it's adorable, and I don't tend to think that things are adorable all that often.
I think one of the reasons that I got this fish is probably because fish are supposed to have a calming and stress-reducing effect, which is why there are always fish tanks in the lobbies of dentists' and pediatricians' offices. And Mudd is a stressful place. I also wanted something to take care of, even if the extent of that care is to drop a few microscopic food pellets into the tank a few times each day. And a fish just makes this Case dorm room more interesting. There is entirely too much reddish pink-colored stuff in here (probably because three of our four walls are reddish pink cinder block), and not nearly enough cool blue and purple.
A rather eerie, yet cool, picture of the tank:
And Bubbles himself!
...along with his blue (plastic) plants:
I think one of the reasons that I got this fish is probably because fish are supposed to have a calming and stress-reducing effect, which is why there are always fish tanks in the lobbies of dentists' and pediatricians' offices. And Mudd is a stressful place. I also wanted something to take care of, even if the extent of that care is to drop a few microscopic food pellets into the tank a few times each day. And a fish just makes this Case dorm room more interesting. There is entirely too much reddish pink-colored stuff in here (probably because three of our four walls are reddish pink cinder block), and not nearly enough cool blue and purple.
A rather eerie, yet cool, picture of the tank:
And Bubbles himself!
...along with his blue (plastic) plants: