one fish two fish three fish *pop*
Feb. 11th, 2003 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
joflasherFriday, more boarding. I fell a total of about 6 or 7 times. This is a HUGE improvement. Normally I fall that much on one run. I even learned how to do the abrupt, spin your board on one end type turns, although that cost me another fall or two before I figured it out. Major lesson of last week, know where your shoulders are. They are controlling most of the upper body weight and you need them in the right place to do tricky balancing stuff. The one fall doesn't count, even though it was the most painful one.
I was getting in line for the lift when this little 5 or 6 year old girl on skis came up to me and ask "Can I ride with you? I'm afraid to ride by myself...". I said "sure" and off we went. At the top of the lift, I said "you go *that* way (making sure to point)when we get off the chair and I'll go *this* way. Then we won't run into one another". Little girl says "okay". End of line, we hop of the chair, I go *this* way, she goes *this* way, ends up with one ski on top of my board, one ski under my board and both of us in a heap. Luckily I managed not to fall on top of her...by landing right smack on my tailbone again. Urgh!
So, having learned nothing from the last attempt, I added another royal gramma and a giant feather duster to the aquarium on Sunday. The feather duster is doing MUCH better than the last one. Its out almost all the time and it lets me feed it plankton with a turkey baster. The only problem with it is that it's tube is attached to an empty snail shell and the hermits keep rolling it around, trying to crawl into the new shell and then giving up and leaving the worm's head buried in the sand. Stupid hermits.
The gramma, he ain't doing so good. The female damsel really beat him up, destroyed all of his tail and ripped big holes in his side. The Boy says she's justified, since the last thing she saw that looked like that kicked the living sh*t out of her, stole her cave and ate all of her eggs. I ended up putting her in a net thingy by herself to give the gramma time to heal and maybe get him to come out of his cave every once in awhile.
We also named the female damsel Das Bitch, despite our normal non-naming rule for fish. She would't let the net near her but as soon as I put the baster in the tank to feed the feather duster, she went wild, attacking it and flaring up everywhere. I put two and two together, got the net in the tank and moved the baster over to the net. *Swoop*, DB is confined to solitary. She's still sulking about it and only this morning started eating again.
The gramma is slowly coming back out from his terror induced hiding. He still won't get more than a few inches from his cave but at least he's coming out some now. Hopefully he heals up. I need to get some better food for him. He doesn't like the pellets we normally feed and brine shrimp aren't all that nutrious.
I also gave in to an impulse buy and bought a nifty little rock with pulsing xenia, green star polyps and mushroom coral on it. I'm afraid we might not have enough light for the xenia to survive. I balanced the new rock on the very top of the highest of the other rocks. The xenia is only an inch or so from the light. Here's hoping. I'll have to keep up the water levels, otherwise the xenia is going to start sticking out of the water...oh well, I wanted an excuse to drop another $200 dollars on the tank anyways. Yay, light upgrades :)
I was getting in line for the lift when this little 5 or 6 year old girl on skis came up to me and ask "Can I ride with you? I'm afraid to ride by myself...". I said "sure" and off we went. At the top of the lift, I said "you go *that* way (making sure to point)when we get off the chair and I'll go *this* way. Then we won't run into one another". Little girl says "okay". End of line, we hop of the chair, I go *this* way, she goes *this* way, ends up with one ski on top of my board, one ski under my board and both of us in a heap. Luckily I managed not to fall on top of her...by landing right smack on my tailbone again. Urgh!
So, having learned nothing from the last attempt, I added another royal gramma and a giant feather duster to the aquarium on Sunday. The feather duster is doing MUCH better than the last one. Its out almost all the time and it lets me feed it plankton with a turkey baster. The only problem with it is that it's tube is attached to an empty snail shell and the hermits keep rolling it around, trying to crawl into the new shell and then giving up and leaving the worm's head buried in the sand. Stupid hermits.
The gramma, he ain't doing so good. The female damsel really beat him up, destroyed all of his tail and ripped big holes in his side. The Boy says she's justified, since the last thing she saw that looked like that kicked the living sh*t out of her, stole her cave and ate all of her eggs. I ended up putting her in a net thingy by herself to give the gramma time to heal and maybe get him to come out of his cave every once in awhile.
We also named the female damsel Das Bitch, despite our normal non-naming rule for fish. She would't let the net near her but as soon as I put the baster in the tank to feed the feather duster, she went wild, attacking it and flaring up everywhere. I put two and two together, got the net in the tank and moved the baster over to the net. *Swoop*, DB is confined to solitary. She's still sulking about it and only this morning started eating again.
The gramma is slowly coming back out from his terror induced hiding. He still won't get more than a few inches from his cave but at least he's coming out some now. Hopefully he heals up. I need to get some better food for him. He doesn't like the pellets we normally feed and brine shrimp aren't all that nutrious.
I also gave in to an impulse buy and bought a nifty little rock with pulsing xenia, green star polyps and mushroom coral on it. I'm afraid we might not have enough light for the xenia to survive. I balanced the new rock on the very top of the highest of the other rocks. The xenia is only an inch or so from the light. Here's hoping. I'll have to keep up the water levels, otherwise the xenia is going to start sticking out of the water...oh well, I wanted an excuse to drop another $200 dollars on the tank anyways. Yay, light upgrades :)
