&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Pets on Hi from Dwipal</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/pets/</link><description>Recent content in Pets on Hi from Dwipal</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:05:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dwipal.com/blog/tags/pets/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>A Splash of Life :)</title><link>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-02-27-a-splash-of-life/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dwipal.com/blog/posts/2006-02-27-a-splash-of-life/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the goldfish in &amp;ldquo;Me, You and Everyone We Know&amp;rdquo;, and having nothing better to do on a rainy sunday afternoon, I decided to buy a fish. It is also a precursor of my ultimate target to get a dog.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So I dragged 2 of my friends to a store called &amp;ldquo;Seascapes&amp;rdquo; in mountain view. I wanted to start small.. just 1 fish in a hassle-free container. The lady there was very helpful, and patiently answered all the random questions we shot at her.&lt;/p&gt;</description><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;Inspired by the goldfish in &amp;ldquo;Me, You and Everyone We Know&amp;rdquo;, and having nothing better to do on a rainy sunday afternoon, I decided to buy a fish. It is also a precursor of my ultimate target to get a dog.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So I dragged 2 of my friends to a store called &amp;ldquo;Seascapes&amp;rdquo; in mountain view. I wanted to start small.. just 1 fish in a hassle-free container. The lady there was very helpful, and patiently answered all the random questions we shot at her.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally, we ended up buying a nice bright strawberry colored &amp;ldquo;Male Betta&amp;rdquo; fish. Bettas are one of the few fishes that can survive in a small tank. They breath the oxygen from air, so don&amp;rsquo;t need a filter in the tank. They also are &amp;ldquo;loners&amp;rdquo;, will actually fight till death if 2 of them are kept together.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After an extremely strong and threatening recommendation from a friend, the fish has been named &amp;ldquo;Splash&amp;rdquo;. In the last 20 hours, he has been pretty active. He immediately eats the food dropped in the pot (will upload a video soon). He is expected to live around 5 years under normal circumstances, am looking forward for that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Here are some pics for your viewing pleasure&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3 id="comments"&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (March 04, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;put a link to seascape store! We ate the lady&amp;rsquo;s head with a million questions and she was kind enough to answer all of them - she deserves some free marketing :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (October 11, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Betta&amp;rsquo;s r cute. But, just be careful not to overfeed them. Not to scare u but mine died as a friend of mine overfed him. cool name!!&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h3 id="comments-1"&gt;Comments&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (March 04, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;put a link to seascape store! We ate the lady&amp;rsquo;s head with a million questions and she was kind enough to answer all of them - she deserves some free marketing :-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;None&lt;/strong&gt; (October 11, 2006):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Betta&amp;rsquo;s r cute. But, just be careful not to overfeed them. Not to scare u but mine died as a friend of mine overfed him. cool name!!&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded></item></channel></rss>