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Do NOT come anywhere near the little bowl I spend all my time swimming around in circles. This is my bowl. I do NOT want to see any other fish in this bowl.
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Oct 10, 2015 21:58
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Oct 10, 2015 22:01
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Is its name Elliot?
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Oct 10, 2015 22:02
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How do you pronounce "bettas". Bay-tah or Bettah?
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Binge posted:How do you pronounce "bettas". Bay-tah or Bettah? A: The answer is all of the above, any of the above, or none of the above. There is no single set of rules for the pronunciation of taxa, and no single interpretation of such rules as some have attempted to compile. As Michael G. Simpson notes under "Pronunciation of Names" in Plant Systematics (2006), Although scientific names are universal, their pronunciations may vary from region to region, especially between different countries. For example, European pronunciations are often different from those of most American botanists. There are no firm rules as to how scientific names should be pronounced. Very often, pronunciations are influenced by one's native language. One should be flexible and adaptive with regard to pronunciations, as the overriding goal is communications. Broadly, most English-speaking practitioners of science, medicine, law, architecture, and other disciplines follow traditional English pronunciation of Latin for the Latin and quasi-Latin terms in their fields. There are those who push for what is known as Reformed Academic Pronunciation, a system devised in the late 19th century which is supposed to be closer to the classical pronunciation, and which is closer to the way the words would be pronounced in most continental European languages. William Stearn favors the latter in his widely cited Botanical Latin (1983), but as countless papers, guides, and appendices note: Professionals not only use different pronunciations from one place to another, but do not consistently follow the same system themselves. People tend to pronounce names based on how they first hear them, as opposed to a particular system of pronunciation English speakers don't agree on how to pronounce English; how would they agree on how to pronounce any other language or pseudo-language? (Yes, I am one of those people who is always going on about bruschetta— it's Italian, not French or German.) Zoologists and bacteriologists moved away from requiring a classical basis for names some time ago, and botanists have moved in the same direction, so perhaps there will be less debate in the future.
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Oct 10, 2015 22:04
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 whoah a fish is making a thread?
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Oct 10, 2015 22:07
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Mr. Pumroy posted:
He thinks it was a good idea but he's all wet
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Oct 10, 2015 22:09
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 Alpha Betta checking in
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Oct 10, 2015 22:33
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Smelly Bohemian posted:
 Brave fish knows how to serve it's country.
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Oct 10, 2015 22:36
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Oct 10, 2015 22:43
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I'm just here to put fifty bucks on the one with white spots and the attitude
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Oct 10, 2015 22:45
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My roommate has a betta. I named him Reginald since he never got a name, when you put a mirror up to his tank and he sees himself, he freaks the gently caress out.
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Oct 10, 2015 23:15
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 There betta not be any other fish in this thread.
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Oct 10, 2015 23:27
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Anyone else seeing that bouncy head? I sure hope so.
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Oct 10, 2015 23:28
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Binge posted:How do you pronounce "bettas". Bay-tah or Bettah? If I'm around normal human beings I say Baytah. If I'm around fish spergs, I instantly say bettah because they expect you to know better. AMA about betta fish names. I know them all. For instance:  This fish is named goku.
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Oct 10, 2015 23:39
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I have mollies but one just commit suicide earler today
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Oct 10, 2015 23:46
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my ex had some bettas. they like to get into fights, kind of a rough and tumble fish
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Oct 11, 2015 00:07
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SniperWoreConverse posted:I have mollies but one just commit suicide earler today sorry
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Oct 11, 2015 00:08
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Enfield posted:my ex had some bettas. they like to get into fights, kind of a rough and tumble fish bettas are the most alpha of fish
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Oct 11, 2015 00:10
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Enfield posted:sorry thanks for your concern but I can only blame my self. there are social strife issues in my fish tank I think
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Oct 11, 2015 00:35
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im a flagpole sitta
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Oct 11, 2015 00:48
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I had a betta fish and I would catch bees or flies once in a while and throw them on top of his water and he'd eat them like a little shark. The only other thing he would eat were the freeze dried blood worms. He didn't want any pellets or sand fleas. One time I though I found a female betta in the store so I bought it and took it home. They didn't seem to want to fight when in tanks next to each other, so I put them in the same tank and they continued to not fight so hey I guessed right. By morning I had guessed wrong. The original betta was the winner but succumbed to his injuries a day later.
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The Thai word for betta translates to "bitey fish" as in a fish that likes to bite. Generally less colorful bettas live wild in rice paddies and flower pots and poo poo over there and eat mosquito larvae. Thai people have their bite fishes fight each other and gamble on the outcome. raton fucked around with this message at 01:01 on Oct 11, 2015 |
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Oct 11, 2015 00:56
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Enfield posted:my ex had some bettas. they like to get into fights, kind of a rough and tumble fish One might even say they are rumble fish.
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Oct 11, 2015 00:59
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im going to eat all the other fish in the bowl, how'd you like that sucker? buy me more fish to eat
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Oct 11, 2015 01:51
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Oct 11, 2015 02:04
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Good thread, take the forums back from the trout-lovers.
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Oct 11, 2015 02:27
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Mentat Radnor posted:Good thread, take the forums back from the trout-lovers.
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Oct 11, 2015 02:32
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you toucha my betta a breaka u face
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Oct 11, 2015 02:32
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FactsAreUseless posted:I made both this thread and the Rowdy Trout thread. Just what are you trying to pull, playing both sides against the middle? What do you gain?
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Oct 11, 2015 02:34
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Mentat Radnor posted:Just what are you trying to pull, playing both sides against the middle? What do you gain?
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Oct 11, 2015 02:39
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i wonder why my mom keeps getting replacement bettas whenever she kills one. and man, does she ever kill a lot of bettas. i suspect they simply lose their will to live in her apartment of despair.
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Oct 11, 2015 02:39
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Years ago I had a betta that suicided. Around sunset the lighting was such that he could see his reflection in the glass. He promptly began slamming his skull into side of the tank, doing his utmost to kill that mirage fish. And what do you know, he succeeded.
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Oct 11, 2015 03:18
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Phobic Nest posted:Years ago I had a betta that suicided. Around sunset the lighting was such that he could see his reflection in the glass. He promptly began slamming his skull into side of the tank, doing his utmost to kill that mirage fish. Badass Hope you bought him a cool as gently caress black marble tombstone and put a pentagram on there
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Oct 11, 2015 03:48
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I have a betta. He's blue with red and white fins. He's scared of a lot of things, but mostly he's scared of my mom's betta. My mom used to have them both in the same tank with a little divider that didn't divide very well. The other fish is big, black, and highly aggressive and three times a day he would break through the divider and kick the blue fish's rear end. So now I have the blue fish in a tank by himself. Well. That's my story. Have a nice day.
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SCALE ITCH 
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FactsAreUseless posted:Do NOT come anywhere near the little bowl I spend all my time swimming around in circles. This is my bowl. I do NOT want to see any other fish in this bowl. /shows you a mirror
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