Apr-16-2010, 11:41 PM (UTC)
So. I probably won't post a photo of myself here, but I was just tweeting about my fish tank, and realized I should post a couple of fish photos here because they are totally related. 
I have a fish tank that is about 300 liters (79 gallons?) and I've named some of the biggest fish in it (with the most distinctive personalities) after Hobb's characters. It all started with none other than Regal about 4 years ago when I got a pair (a male and a female) of pearl gouramis. The species is known for two things: it's beauty and it's gentle nature. Except I got one that hadn't read any fish books and didn't know this. He turned out to be a real bully who forced his mate to stay hiding among the plants and rocks until she died of stress/hunger. Then he proceeded to tyrannize the Angel fish. So, I had a really beautiful male fish who liked to push around everyone just for the sake of it - can you blame me when I started to talk about him as Regal?
He actually started to finally calm down a bit during the last year, and today when I cleaned the tank he had disappeared. I think he was just old, and probably just hid among the plants until he died and then my Striped Raphael catfish probably ate him. Still, fish that big don't usually just disappear overnight! (Okay, I hadn't actually been much home/paying attention to the fish for a couple of days, but still.) And I don't keep ferrets...
So, after Regal had his name, I of course had to name the two Angels Patience (because he didn't really mind about Regal's tantrums) and Lacey (because he has a really beautiful pattern in his sides). Oh, and I didn't know at the time that the ladies were actually male, it's almost impossible to figure out the gender of your Angels.
So, here are the photos:
A very young Regal
Regal and young Patience
Closer look at Patience
Lacey
I have a fish tank that is about 300 liters (79 gallons?) and I've named some of the biggest fish in it (with the most distinctive personalities) after Hobb's characters. It all started with none other than Regal about 4 years ago when I got a pair (a male and a female) of pearl gouramis. The species is known for two things: it's beauty and it's gentle nature. Except I got one that hadn't read any fish books and didn't know this. He turned out to be a real bully who forced his mate to stay hiding among the plants and rocks until she died of stress/hunger. Then he proceeded to tyrannize the Angel fish. So, I had a really beautiful male fish who liked to push around everyone just for the sake of it - can you blame me when I started to talk about him as Regal?
He actually started to finally calm down a bit during the last year, and today when I cleaned the tank he had disappeared. I think he was just old, and probably just hid among the plants until he died and then my Striped Raphael catfish probably ate him. Still, fish that big don't usually just disappear overnight! (Okay, I hadn't actually been much home/paying attention to the fish for a couple of days, but still.) And I don't keep ferrets... So, after Regal had his name, I of course had to name the two Angels Patience (because he didn't really mind about Regal's tantrums) and Lacey (because he has a really beautiful pattern in his sides). Oh, and I didn't know at the time that the ladies were actually male, it's almost impossible to figure out the gender of your Angels.
So, here are the photos:
A very young Regal
Regal and young Patience
Closer look at Patience
Lacey
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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