Sun, Nov. 1st, 2009, 06:37 am
Platys!

Apparently, platys are INCAPABLE of sitting still long enough for you to actually take a picture (which does not feature a zooming, blurry platy), so here is a short movie.

They are tiny, tiny little beady-eyed things with delicate, translucent little fins. Their pectorals, in particular, beat like crazy. And they're fast! And they like eating!

I will be putting in some more water soon, and then turn on the filter (I wanna make sure the water isn't chlorinated! Fish!)

Fish are so great. ZOMG.

ETA: Moar fishies. I have decided their names are:
Penny: shiny-eyed red platy
Frankie: red platy with white patch. The only male platy. THAT I KNOW OF.
Checkers: orange platy with Mickey Mouse symbol on tail
Tango: orange platy with brownish markings on tail
Georgia: the smaller yellow/white platy
Lemon: fat yellow/white platy
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Sun, Nov. 1st, 2009 10:21 pm (UTC)
[info]ayala_atreides

Aww, they're such cute little zooming fishies! I like the music in the second one. Congrats on your awesome new pets.

Hmm, that reminds me! I have video of my goldfishes! I ought to post it on Youtube...
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Sun, Nov. 1st, 2009 10:39 pm (UTC)
[info]tetradecimal

Oh, you have goldfish? I love goldfish!

There are some in my mom's pond, but apparently an EGRET or something of the like has been coming down and eating them o__O. There are a few left, like a puffy-eyed black one, and the normal goldfish, which are brightly colored, but (I think) are the fastest swimmers.

All the fancy ones, with big floppy tails? Eaten.
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Sun, Nov. 1st, 2009 10:59 pm (UTC)
[info]ayala_atreides

Well, not anymore. Not because they died, but because I gave them to my neighbor. I adopted them at college in my sophomore year under rather... complicated... conditions (it's a long story). Getting them safely home in June was a stressful ordeal for all four of us (me and the three fishies) and I decided it wouldn't be fair to them to put them through that twice a year. So I gave them to the family next door-- we were good friends with the parents and their kids were real sweethearts, so I knew I could trust them to take care of my fishies. I do miss 'em, though. :( They're still alive as far as I know. Well, two of them are. One jumped out of the tank while I was in Israel that summer. My mom was taking care of them and forgot to cover the tank after cleaning it once. ;_;
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