is there a doctor in the house?

I'm pretty sure Kim has fin rot =[. It started with fraying at the ends of his top fin, then i noticed pinholes, then he lost a chunk of that fin!!! This morning part of the remainder of that fin has split. I did a 25% water change yesterday and will do it again today but I worry that I'm changing the water parameters too much by doing so. Yesterday ammonia was at zero and so was nitrite so I wonder what it is stressing him out sigh.

I wonder how restful the sleep is considered when you dream of trying to encourage a tarantula to lay eggs and keeping it in a salad spinner so you don't lose it in your room. Then you have to protect a baby from some group that wants it for evil means. There was a whole lot of neck slashing and bleeding...possibly from reading a vampire story before bed. Still, you ever think you could slash someone's throat with an x-acto knife? I spose if the other option is that guy slashing the baby's throat.

I didn't know we were going to do morning service for the rest of the quarter so I got a call at 8 am haha and subsequently got ready in about 4 minutes. I think I'm going to take one more hour of sleep. Oh yeah, new night guard. It was weird, stayed in my mouth though. Some teeth felt funny in the morning so I might need it adjusted. Twice I've had to rip it out of my mouth to answer the phone @.@

McDonald's has pumpkin pies (like their apples). Go get some.

babies

It was the dawn of a new day! A sunny Saturday morning just waiting to be taken! And so I hurried home from my aunt's to ready for the purchase of my new betta.

Then Michael told me he wasn't free until 5 so I took a nap most of the afternoon.

Finally with Michael's arrival we went to the fish store to find walls of bettas in jars and mcCafe cups and boba cups haha. There he was! The prettiest light blue half moon double tail betta in the whoooooooole store. Upon asking how much he was we learned at he was $18 =[. There's no way I can bring myself to spend that much on a fish. After many a wheedling I convinced Michael to make him my christmas present, whee. Now the man in the store talked us into first cycling the tank and all kinds of craziness so little McCafe as we nicknamed him had to hang out in the cup for awhile. And me with an empty tank? ::goes insane::

Craig's list to the rescue! Someone was selling 10 red cherry shrimp which I proceeded to purchase from her outside of a starbucks haha. Wheee they owned the tank eating I have no idea what because it sure as heck wasn't the food I was trying to feed them. The weirdest thing was that I thought they would just hang out in the tank but they swam like laps around the tank.

Then when Josh was here I went and bought 4 neon tetras, awwwww. They would poke the shrimp now and then but there seemed to be a coexistance.

It had reached only the 2 week mark or so of 4 for cycling but I couldn't stand it and added Kim as he became known to the tank. He sure seems to like the space, swim and fan out, and swim and fan out, and show off, that fop. Now however about a week later I can locate no shrimp >.> uh oh....