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HYPERASHEL
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 Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:21 Post subject: What's he thinking?
Bob the Betta (fish) has started to wriggle his way into the plant reservior on the waterfall set up. as soon as he got this modified planter he looked up as in contemplating this manuever.
so last week i saw him actually jump up and into the well in which the smaller planter sets in. i coaxed him out. well this morning he does it again, he swam out on his own, but WTF?? 
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:27 Post subject:
He's living his dream of being a salmon swimming upstream to spawn...
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:28 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | He's living his dream of being a salmon swimming upstream to spawn... |
and die.
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:28 Post subject:
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and die.
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Shh! He doesn't know that part yet!
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:30 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | He's living his dream of being a salmon swimming upstream to spawn... |
| HighHeat wrote: |
and die.
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:30 Post subject: Re: What's he thinking?
| HYPERASHEL wrote: | Bob the Betta (fish) has started to wriggle his way into the plant reservior on the waterfall set up. as soon as he got this modified planter he looked up as in contemplating this manuever.
so last week i saw him actually jump up and into the well in which the smaller planter sets in. i coaxed him out. well this morning he does it again, he swam out on his own, but WTF?? |
Could he be harmed in some way by doing there? If not...let him get a new perspective on things.
My mom used to vary the stuff she put next to her fish's bowl, just to give him something new. He felt very threatened by Bert and Ernie, though.
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HighHeat
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:32 Post subject:
| robp wrote: |
Shh! He doesn't know that part yet! |
A massive pile of stinking fish.
Sounds like Mardi Gras....
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:33 Post subject:
I once had a lunker of a pike on my fishing line. I was reeling him in to the dock and you know what he did? He swam a couple laps around the post holding up the dock and then took off for deeper water. It almost seemed like he knew the line would snap with that maneuver.
I dunno, some fish seem to have gotten two brain cells instead of one. Either way though, they're pretty dopey critters.
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:38 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | I once had a lunker of a pike on my fishing line. I was reeling him in to the dock and you know what he did? He swam a couple laps around the post holding up the dock and then took off for deeper water. It almost seemed like he knew the line would snap with that maneuver.
I dunno, some fish seem to have gotten two brain cells instead of one. Either way though, they're pretty dopey critters. |
Pike are masters at that kind of stunt. Sometimes it backfires though.... I was reeling in a good sized pike and as I got him close to the boat I told my son to get the landing net ready. No need for that - Mr. Pike decided to make an airborne dash for freedom and launched himself out of the water like a rocket.... and right into my boat! Where he of course decided to flail around madly until he had no less than 7 rods/reels worth of crap tangled around him. 
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 11:43 Post subject: Re: What's he thinking?
| Maddie's Wench wrote: |
Could he be harmed in some way by doing there? If not...let him get a new perspective on things.
My mom used to vary the stuff she put next to her fish's bowl, just to give him something new. He felt very threatened by Bert and Ernie, though. |
possibly, if he decided to jump again once in the well. thought he'd have to be well aimed to get out of the reservoir.
Due to this though there has been an engineering modifcation on the assembly line already.
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 13:25 Post subject:
Now I'm really scared. I have a Beta fish too. His name is Cinnamon. Cinny for short.
We have way to much in common.
Sheldon
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 13:29 Post subject:
| marathonrnr262 wrote: | Now I'm really scared. I have a Beta fish too. His name is Cinnamon. Cinny for short.
We have way to much in common.
Sheldon |
TEEE HEEE, yup time to be nervous.
please tell me he's not in a teeny tiny bowl/cup though and covered.
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 13:43 Post subject:
He is in a vase with a plant on the top.
I'll post a pic on Monday
Sheldon
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 13:44 Post subject:
| marathonrnr262 wrote: | He is in a vase with a plant on the top.
I'll post a pic on Monday
Sheldon |
please tell me you actually feed him Betta food. right. you don't have him eat the roots, do you? you make sure he can get to the surface to breathe?
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Posted: 02/04/05 - 13:47 Post subject: Re: What's he thinking?
| Maddie's Wench wrote: |
Could he be harmed in some way by doing there? If not...let him get a new perspective on things.
My mom used to vary the stuff she put next to her fish's bowl, just to give him something new. He felt very threatened by Bert and Ernie, though. |
Sigh. Don't we all.
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