guppies through the generations :) (1,100 views)

[Shelly]

i love watching them

[Casey]

they are very relaxing to watch. my last fish, Tank, he was not the most entertaining fish, poor old guy, but he had a happy life with us. he lived 9 years, and by the last 2 years he had a hard time getting around. he could hardly swim and he moved really stiff. we lowered the water for him and he had a leafy plant to rest on. we lowered it so he only had to lift his head for food. we often had to check if he was dead because he moved so little. that fish was abused before. i have a picture of him hung up on our wall. my cousins got him when we were younger, and they didnt want him after 5 years... they held him out of the water, they purposely "shocked" him, they put him in water that still had chlorine in it, they starved him until he turned white, they did not clean his tank. yet, he lived through it all. i felt sorry for him, and when they asked if i wanted him, i took him home, gave him a bigger tank and got him proper care. i named him Tank because nothing that was thrown at him ever took him down. he lived 3-4 years further in my care. i miss him, and i was really bummed when he died. but he was ready to go, he could hardly move and he had very little quality of life. i just wish he had a kinder life before me. but he was my last fish i had.


i've had a mudminnow before and i absolutely loved it! but it died. my tank got parasites and all my fish had caught them and died. they were these red worms and it killed all my fish

[injood]

i can stare at fish forever !!! they hypnotize me hahahaha


i love your guppies <3

[Shelly]

Apr 29, 2013 13:01:11 GMT -8 Casey said:

they are very relaxing to watch. my last fish, Tank, he was not the most entertaining fish, poor old guy, but he had a happy life with us. he lived 9 years, and by the last 2 years he had a hard time getting around. he could hardly swim and he moved really stiff. we lowered the water for him and he had a leafy plant to rest on. we lowered it so he only had to lift his head for food. we often had to check if he was dead because he moved so little. that fish was abused before. i have a picture of him hung up on our wall. my cousins got him when we were younger, and they didnt want him after 5 years... they held him out of the water, they purposely "shocked" him, they put him in water that still had chlorine in it, they starved him until he turned white, they did not clean his tank. yet, he lived through it all. i felt sorry for him, and when they asked if i wanted him, i took him home, gave him a bigger tank and got him proper care. i named him Tank because nothing that was thrown at him ever took him down. he lived 3-4 years further in my care. i miss him, and i was really bummed when he died. but he was ready to go, he could hardly move and he had very little quality of life. i just wish he had a kinder life before me. but he was my last fish i had.


i've had a mudminnow before and i absolutely loved it! but it died. my tank got parasites and all my fish had caught them and died. they were these red worms and it killed all my fish

i have minnows too but they are feeders... and i think they have tumors

i lost a betta the other day. i have been really busy in general and it is killing me inside because the tank water is so low and they all need a good clean

[Casey]

seems fish keeping is very tedious hard work lol

[Shelly]

ehh depends on the fish my fish are really easy but i have had a lot of homework, and i ride on the weekends (who can say no to that?), and in general i am doing twice the work on a physics project because my partner has done crap (as in nothing) and so I have to do the WHOLE project by myself. the teacher always says to email her if there is a problem, in general, and i did asking if i can work alone, and she hasnt emailed back > i am also mad at the teacher for a lab report grade i got... she says to follow the rubric that has what we need in it, then she hands back a grading sheet with the catigories and the grade for each one, 2 of them werent on the rubric so i got a 0 in those resulting in an overall grade of a 67... i have straight A's in all my classes and now that will probably go dowm in that class because of the incomplete project thanks to my partner and the lab B-| .. uuggghh...there is just so much to worry about all of a sudden and i am walking around stressed out of my mind. during the day i get really tense for a few seconds, its like waves of stress. it was first loosing lenny, then it was when to get another bird, now it my cat gone missing, i cried my self to sleep for an hour last night (because of my cat and school) and only got 6.5 hours of sleep, waking up with super puffy eyelids and i got teary eyed again in school when i told my friend. life just got harder all of a sudden :-[

[Casey]

i completely understand. it feels like everything all at once, and you feel old and tired.

one day at a time just focus on today, not tomorrow for awhile. it will help ease your mind and stress a bit. worry about today's worries, worry about tomorrow's worries tomorrow.

one grade thats 67 isnt TOO bad. granted, its not great, but it wont affect your mark badly enough that you wont be able to pick it back up you're smart, i know you can do it!

being a bad role model here, i scraped passes in math throughout my life. i am NOT good at math. but i did MY best, even if the highest report card mark in math ever was 57 for me lol but i've also NEVER failed math. i've never failed a single class in my life. just do YOUR best in school. you take pride in your grades, that's excellent. you know your strengths. if you missed something because of a misunderstanding or whatever, well, that cant be helped and just know you worked hard and did your best regardless.

i wish i was a straight A student in school, but i wasnt. i excelled at French, Art, English, and Photography. a few other random courses too like Sociology and Construction. but i was horrible at Math, History, and Religion (i went to Catholic school, where Religion is a mandatory class to take every year...). then others, like Gym, Science, Geography, and Careers and Civics, i was okay in. but i knew where i stood as far as what i was good at.

i dont remember much French anymore though LOL


my point is, you are lucky you are a straight A student in so much. not everyone is. one low grade wont hurt you, i promise you did your best on it, and that is what matters in the end.


can you talk to the teacher about it?


and losing a loved one is always hard. i still miss all those who have left me, be it by passing away like Toby, or by returning to the wild like Vulture and Buddy. it gets easier in time. you'll always miss Lenny and Pumble, but the edge of the pain will dull over time.

[Shelly]

i could talk to my teacher, but she is one of those teachers that would let me do anything about it she was an ok teacher then she started grading us by the answers and not if we did it or not, which is frustrating because i kind of get physics, but there are some things i just dont get, or i dont get it but i can do the math. i feel like she doesnt teach us every thing... like she has 100% knowledge in her mind and she is teaching 50% of it and thinking the other 50%, thinking that we got all 100% when we only got 50%. and her quizzes are a joke, they are short and usually have like 10 multiple choice and a problem to figure out, but the multiple choise are worded so weird and some times we hardly learn what they are asking. i uaually get an 80-86ish which is ok but i would rather get a 90+. i really want to keep my grade up at an A because that means i dont have to take the final test and i really couldn't remember all the stuff we have leaned.

[Casey]

so wait, you are exempt from taking the test if your mark is over an A??? that's so different than what i was used to in school. everyone took the final exam here regardless of grade

[Shelly]

if you have an A you are exempt from that final, but you can only skip up to 2 finals, there are 4 total.

and an update on this lovely physics project with the useless partner- the powerpoint is due in like 3 weeks and my partner came to me TODAY (when i have done all the work and am half finished with the whole thing) to ask what she can do!! > umm too late!! and the teacher, who i emailed, hear and was like (to her) oh i have to talk to you about that.. she (me) did all the work. so in other words. the teacher got my email, which i didnt know, she she never emailed me back. so in the end i told my 'partner' that at this point i think she should do her own project and i will finish "mine". but i am satisfied because the teacher said i would get all the credit