I know this sounds sort of funny, but I’m pretty upset about it:
I have a stupid stupid fish… it just tried to eat a snail the size of its own head (a snail it’s happily shared a tank with for the past year), and managed to get the shell edge stuck in its mouth. I managed to get the snail out of there, but I think the fish has got a dislocated or broken jaw; it can’t shut its mouth.
This is almost certainly incurable.
I now probably have to decide if I should watch my favourite pet cichlid starve slowly to death, or euthanise it.
I’m really hoping it’s just done something minor, and it’ll have mysteriously sprung back to normal in the morning… there’s nothing else I can do.
Crap.
Incredibly minor rant… I didn’t realize I had a kleenex in my pants pocket until after I did that load of laundry. Kleenex fuzz everywhere. Sigh. Maybe if I didn’t have to deal with a month-long case of sinus issues I wouldn’t be absent-mindedly stuffing kleenex in my pockets.
Filbert Pets are important. I don’t know if vets treat fish, so I have no advice. I hope your fish gets better.
Story about a fish happens now. A friend had a fish that liked to keep his tank the way he wanted it. He didn’t like the ceramic fish that my friend put in the tank, so would knock it over and use his fins to cover it with gravel.
One day, we were hanging out doing recreational stuff and my friend started teasing the fish by picking the ceramic fish up and planting it upright after the fish had fixed things up like he wanted. After my friend did it twice, he reached in the tank to do it again and his fish bit him on the hand.
My rant. I got pulled over today for expired tags today. I had paid the registration fees back in November, but due to surgery and drugs and bad memory, didn’t notice that I never got the sticker for my license plate. Until today. The cop was nice and all, he said that he thought that someone had stolen my sticker and issued me a warning ticket.
I tried to call ADOT several times but always got a recording that said that all lines were busy so I should call back later. Finally, I got through, waited for about 10 minutes and spoke to a human. When she heard that I hadn’t gotten my sticker from that far back, she told me that she would have to transfer me to someone who had a computer amd that the wait time would be at least 29 minutes.
WTF?!?! The poor 1st level people don’t have any way to access my info?
No wonder people think that government employees are stupid and lazy.
I didn’t yell at her, I just thanked her for her time. When I got home, I went online and my new sticker should be here by Monday. I put a reminder in my cell to be sure to check ONLINE if it doesn’t arrive.
I understand that there are statistics about driver safety and accident rates based on age. But it still pisses me off that I have to pay a daily rental car surcharge because I’m 24 years 7 months instead of 25. You can’t round up or something? Public transit here I come.
Dear guy tailgating me on busy Rt 22 heading into Allentown… You had a cell phone in one hand and a coffee in the other. You must have an elephant trunk for a dick to be able to drive.
Miniest of mini-rants: Goddammit, lady, why must you marvel at how unlike me my kids look every time I see you?? Then you go on about how people must assume I’m their babysitter. I get it. They’re brown. I’m pink. They have black hair and their father’s features. I don’t. Thank you very much for continually pointing out the obvious differences between me and my children. Now shut up.
My car is totaled. The damage done was more than the car was worth, so now I’m waiting on a check from the insurance company. Frankly, that’s for the best I suppose; it was never a model I would have picked out myself and it was already making clunking sounds on hard turns after the first accident that I never got checked out, but on the other hand, that was my grandfather’s last car. It did have a bit of sentimental value.
Anyway, it did its job. A week out I’ve had some neck stiffness that has already eased up, no more aches or pains than that. Keep your headrests set high, folks; the one clear thing I remember from the impact is my head slamming into the headrest. If it’s set too low your head may rock back over the top of it and you’re in for a world of hurt.
I think most people have done that and can sympathize. I’m just glad the Other Shoe is taking Prilosec now instead of an endless stream of Tums, because he would tuck those things everywhere and, yes, they’d wind up going through the wash.
Oddly, sometimes, they wouldn’t even dissolve, and I’d find one rolling around in the dryer, hold it up, and ask, “Honey, would you like the world’s cleanest antacid?”
Today, his mouth still seems to be stuck a bit open, and he has a quite big tear/lump on the side of his jaw, but he can eat I’ve just fed the tank, and he’s even clumsier than normal, but food definitely went in, and did not come back out.
He really is a stupid fish- the same one has managed to lodge himself horizontally beneath the filter before now. Twice. In one day.
He’s a dwarf cichlid, only about 3" long, so way too small for even a specialist vet to try and treat- and there are no fish specialists around here. Everything I could find about jaw damage for fish said it was untreatable for fish under a foot long as the bones are so tiny, and even over that size it was pretty dodgy.
Thanks for nice thoughts everyone! Looks like he got away with it.. until he does something else.
Ps. The vacuum cleaner broke today- don’t care though, can get a new vacuum, but can’t get another fish so endearingly gormless as that one
I realize I’ve been exceptionally lucky in the health area lately, but still…
I started losing my voice yesterday at work. Woke up today with no voice and headache and ear pain. Went to the quickie clinic and discovered ear infection & sinusitis & enlarged tonsils, but at least no strep.
However, my co-workers don’t seem to believe I have no voice and keep either calling me or sending me tickets to work from home that require a phone call. I have no voice!!! Please understand that I really just want to answer emails and rest.
If I had more sick time I would’ve just taken the day off, but I get 5 days per year TOTAL (including vacation) and I don’t want to blow it all in the first half of the year.
Oh, good - glad to hear it.
Lindt, your chocolate is delicious but your packaging kinda sucks.
Also, this stupid thumbnail will not stop splitting. Stoppit! Argh!
ETA
Nah, you probably have this thing called “upper body strength” while I have arm muscles that more closely resemble spaghetti. One of the reasons I offered to help with this chore was for the exercise.
I’ve just fed the tank, and he’s even clumsier than normal, but food definitely went in, and did not come back out.
