Suddenly the stars don't shine so bright...

I'm no longer Mr. Bushtails' pat-o-matic

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My kittykins' wings, collar and bell.

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... and Calmwaters Polite Society has closed down.

Rachelfins' wings...erm actually it's my hairclip :)

Faerykin misses them :(

Back to Being Petless

kittykins: i think i'll blog about how my fish died
Soofoo: considering your nick, you probably ate him :)
kittykins: Soofoo hehe no i didn't
kittykins: my fish was a girl
kittykins: she loved to jump out of the water all day
kittykins: jump jump jump
kittykins: but that day she landed on the floor

Poor Rachelfins. Last Saturday I woke up at 9:30am to find her lifeless on the floor. Not even a slight movement, she was so stiff, appeared totally dead. So I scooped her into a container, left her in the backyard & i then went into the shower. The amazing thing was, an hour later (10:30am) when I was about to dispose of her, I saw her fins wiggling weakly. She was still alive! After so long out of the water! Goodness knows how many hours altogether. I quickly put her back into the water and she came back to life as the minutes ticked by. In the end she could swim again! Wow, I was so happy. Amazing! But my happiness was shortlived when some time much later she stopped swimming and lay down on her side gasping & gasping every breath she took, her mouth opening and closing continuously. It was a pitiful sight. Poor thing. Heh, disappointing. She was just a fish but still nice too. She'd get excited when I came into the room and would swim up to the surface.

Meet Rachelfins Witwicky

This is Rachelfins Witwicky, the 2nd of my 2 pets. A colleague of mine gave her to me in June. So she's been my pet for 3 months now. She's grown so fast & so much.



I actually can't tell her gender but decided to consider her female since my other pet is already male :) She is a freshwater fish called the climbing perch, locally, puyu.

'One of the most celebrated local fishes, it is capable of wandering "cross-country" from one water body to another. It crawls about with its spiky gill covers propped by its pectoral fins. The hind part of the fish twitches violently to propel it forward. Using this method, and when the air is sufficiently humid, it is said to be able to cover several hundred metres per trip. Despite its common name, it cannot really climb!' - text taken from here

Wow :) my Rachelfins can 'walk'.

Her natural color is actually greyish-white but she looks reddish because I feed her coloured fishfood meant for red goldfish. I should have bought the blue.

Anyway I named her Rachel because it is a common name yet a pretty name, just as she is a common fish yet uh... ordinary fish, & the name can be paired smoothly with 'fins'. Emilyfins sounds a little tongue-tangling. Brendafins, well, I don't like the name Brenda. Florencefins is a mouthful.

Why Witwicky? Well, she is named after that great old captain in Transformers. It's befitting because he was someone who navigated the sea, a place where fishes live. Furthermore she's also uh... kinda like a transformer too, one minute she swims, the next she crawls, walks, almost climbs & can breathe for a long time out of water hehe ... And I read somewhere that climbing perches are the toughest of the freshwater fishes & can survive harsh conditions.

Wow, Rachelfins is amazing :) :)