In honor of the final season of Lost premiering tonight, here is a post about my betta fish, Benjamin – named after Benjamin Linus! Ben is my favorite character on the show. He’s so appealingly creepy, and I want him to succeed even if it’s not in the best interest of the other characters.
I bought Benjamin The Fish on a whim when I bought betta fish for my cousins as Christmas gifts. He was the only orange betta fish at the pet store. Orange is my favorite color, so I had to have him! He lives in a fish bowl on my desk at work because my terrible cats would probably eat him if I brought him home.
Someday, I want a gigantic aquarium with dozens of fish. Benjamin is a good starter fish, though. He’s surprisingly easy to care for. I feed him four pellets every morning, except for on the weekends. And I clean his bowl every other week, which just entails dumping him into the plastic bucket that he lived in at the pet store while I swish out his fish bowl and fill it with fresh water.
Only a few days after I got Benjamin, he built a bubble nest! Male betta fish build bubble nests before mating. When the female betta fish releases eggs, the male fish carries the eggs to his bubble nest to be incubated, and then he chases the female away so that she doesn’t eat the eggs. Brutal!
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