New pet

I made the mistake of going to Petco the other night. Pandora the thyroid kitty hasn't had her normal appetite since she got a cold(don't blame her), and was looking for smelly cat food to help entice her to eat. Cats can kil themselves by not eating.

Walked by the salt tanks . .despite some say, I've had pretty good luck with my petco fish vs other specialty stores. In fact, out of the fish in my 55, all but the Bengaii Cardinals, the Watchman goby & the Yellow wrasse all came from Petco. . .

Anyhow. I noticed they had a new shipman in, and low and behold, I realised they had a pair of Mandarin Dragonnettes.
Sorry the pic's not the greatest, I've learned it's really hard to get good photos of my fish. Anyway, Mandarin's are the coolest, most pschydelic fish ever. .I've wanted one for months, but didn't want to spend $30 on a fish that may or may not make it. These are BUGGERS to keep alive, due to the fact it's hard to get them to eat anything but copepods (Google in, itty bitty tiny shrimp like things)

Poor guy was in a itty bitty tank with one live rock. It's highly unlikely he'd've made it for any amount of time in that tank. I brought him home, set him up in the 55, and drove out to lancaster and picked up two bottles of copepods.

These guys are the hummingbird's of the fish world, constantly eating. A lot of people will get angry at you for even trying one of these in anything smaller than a 75 gallon tank. I'm going to try my best, but also know that the odds are stacked against him. Will buy some more copepods next paycheck, and hope I can seed the tank and refuge enough that he'll make it, but at least he has a chance in this tank. I have been learning a lot about this fish over the last 16 months., . so many don't learn before they buy(like the lady who bought the huge damn yellow tang to put in a tank smaller than mine. . and this fish was too big for MY tank. Geesh!)

working, wishing, playing

LOL.

Working: Damn it gets warm and humid here fast. . .tried to do some weeding on the flower garden as I have some ideas on how to spruce things up a bit, but damn you get hot and sweaty fast. . let alone the back ache.

Yesterday I did the same to my veggie garden, my tomatoes already bare fruit YEAH!!! I am so tickled, especially with the current tomatoe shortage/scare. . .i love them, but not enough to risk getting sick. My watermelon plants are going bonkers, the peppers not so much. My iris' are growing well, tho only one of them bloomed this year, I'll have to dig out around their bulbs this fall, they are so finicky it's not funny. My star lilly is looking GORGEOUS, too bad I didn't get pics of the bloom when it first happened, beautiful purply red colour. . .goign to have to pick up some more, the ones I gave Bonnie last year are huge and such pretty pinks, customers have commented on them. Planted some more iris & star lillies :) Gotta get mulch up there to keep the weeds away, this had originally been tilled 2 yrs ago for a garden, but the people who did it never took care of it. . .so it got overgrown. . .i'm trying to keep up with it, but the way some of these weeds grow, good HEAVENS!!

Also worked on my salt water tank yesterday. Had to make use of the day off and no puppies darnit LOL And no racing today because of that, damnit :P So scrubbed it of the coraline algae, and put my new coral in. Isn't he purty? He's now all fluffed up and looks to be very very happy. It's hard getting good photos in the tank, may have to upgrade my camera lOL Yeah, when money grows on trees. Hell, there's a 75 gal tank on Craigslist I'd love to have, and Bonnie's all for getting a bigger tank LOL She's more excited than I am, makes sure all visitors comes and sees it. Need to find her her cardinal banghaii for the tank.

Wishing:
Missing the flexibility of my old job. . I'd be able to put in hours in order to take off early to go long distances, but I also had a much more reliable car than I do now. Nothing wrong with my 97 Dodge neon, it has really low mileage(35k), and gets 40+ mpg, but I would not be comfy driving it 8 hrs to Camden SC to run LGRA or to IL, even tho I'd love to pit Gossip against Sammy & Bartleby. Hell, I'd've loved an honest match against Zemny, but that didn't happen :P When I get back in school, I'll have even less time for playing, oh joy, hopefully I'll still be able to fit it in, or i'll burn out, btdt.

Hell, wishing I'd finish school instead of getting distracted with the need to work in order to do more doggy things. . .having only 6 dogs and 4 cats has definitely cut down on the vet bills, that's for sure, and knock on wood, no emergencies in 2+ yrs. Even Fidget's vet bills weren't that high, most expensive part was the food, but that's because I refused to go thru heroics for a 16+ yr old kitty. . . thankfully racing is a lot cheaper on the pocket book than coursing. . .


Playing:



Played with Dei on the agility equipment, she had the zoomies something bad and decided to do it HER way. LOL. Oh well, you can tell she's having a blast, can't you? yeah, the video isn't perfect, hard to do when you're doing it yourself and running the dog. Will have to break down the teeter & the dog walk, as when she gets the zoomies, that's what she runs and does instead of what I want her to do LOL BRAT

well, off to weed some more now that i've cooled down