I now have a rather serious crush developing on Zachary Quinto. O no, Quinto!
Leviathan, my fish, isn't eating. He's just sitting in one corner, moving as little as possible. I can't see any outward signs of being sick. Any fish experts have an idea?
EDIT: Thanks anyway, fish experts, but poor Levi died this morning. I am pretty bummed -- I loved my crazy one-eyed goldfish.
In happier news, in one of my drop-off art classes, one of my favorite kids -- a freckle-faced goofball named Dan -- wanted a story. I didn't have one on me at the time, since stories were usually reserved for a different part of class, so I just said, "Once upon a time there was a frog who loved a princess so they got hitched, the end." This did not satisfy him, and the rest of my class was starting to back him up in demand for a story, so I just made one up with no idea of how it would end when I started it.
"Once upon a time there was a ship full of dirty rotten pirates..."
But then the story grew. There was a pirate king and a ghost and three tasks, and it was silly and nonsensical as well as interesting, and I managed to come up with a proper ending as well. It was good. It satisfied the moppy-haired masses. They kept their eyes on me the whole time. They laughed at the right parts. They clapped at the finish.
So I'm writing it down.
I will share what I have when I have aught to share. Until then, I have a comic for you...
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Caprica has been so needy lately, and has been sleeping right by my head, sharing my pillow. Thank goodness I took a sudafed before bed last night!
What kind of fish is he? There's a million reasons for picky eating for each kind of fish.
Generally though, when a fish won't eat it's because of water temperature, Chlorine sickness, an alternate food source unknown to the owner(Such as algae under rocks or dust mites settling on the surface) Or... because you're watching him. Some fish won't eat in front of a perceived predator.
Sickness is actually the least common reason for a fish not to eat, the most common is the size of the food. Fish food companies sometimes just make the flakes too big. It's like if you had no arms or teeth and someone was just chucking whole steaks at you and wondering why you wouldn't eat.
Try smaller bits and see if that helps.
The story sounds great. Ya know, I've always been jealous of other people's ability to story-tell. There are people who are good writers and people who are good storytellers and sometimes you get a mix of both, but usually it's one or the other. I've always fallen more on the writing side, but it's such a gift to be able to come up with something off the top of your head. It's getting in touch with your inner-child's imagination. It's magic.
I had a dream about you recently, you and your currently non-existent daughter and a story about pirates.