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Hey guys, maybe this is odd but I’m putting it out there. We have a betta in a 2.5 gallon tank with a filter that trickles water back into the tank. I’ve kept many of them before but not in a tank with moving water like this.

I have noticed in the last couple days, our betta wants to hang out directly beneath where the filtered water comes down and hits the surface. This creates a current which would sweep him away normally, but he kind of perches himself in one of the nearby plants so he can stay put.

Worried that it might be ammonia build-up, I changed about a third of the water. During the interval where the water level was lower by that third, our betta positioned himself under the new spot where the water hits the surface! So it is my feeling that he’s seeking it out.

He’s not rubbing on plants or rocks, and he’s not darting so I don’t suspect parasites. He looks normal otherwise; he’s not gasping or anything. And he is responsive when anyone approaches the tank, and at feeding.

Ideas? Thanks!!

You who never arrived
in my arms, Beloved, who were lost
from the start,
I don’t even know what songs
would please you. I have given up trying
to recognize you in the surging wave of
the next moment. All the immense
images in me — the far-off, deeply-felt
landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and
unsuspected turns in the path,
and those powerful lands that were once
pulsing with the life of the gods–
all rise within me to mean
you, who forever elude me.

You, Beloved, who are all
the gardens I have ever gazed at,
longing. An open window
in a country house– , and you almost
stepped out, pensive, to meet me.
Streets that I chanced upon,–
you had just walked down them and vanished.
And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors
were still dizzy with your presence and,
startled, gave back my too-sudden image.
Who knows? Perhaps the same
bird echoed through both of us
yesterday, separate, in the evening…

- Rainer Maria Rilke

I’m getting over a very mild ear infection or something that simulated a flu for a little while. Man, it’s so hard to get motivated after you’ve been laying around! I have ten big tasks before Australia in April and I have to start first thing in the morning.

I have this issue with guilt and not working hard enough — rather than work 8 very focused, directed hours in a day, I’ll work about 4 very focused hours, then start to lose concentration, but rather than taking a break I think “no, I didn’t work hard enough; I have to stay here and keep pushing.” But because my concentration is waning, I’ll now work at a miserable 30% efficiency for another 6 hours. So in the end I won’t have done anything I really wanted to do or really get done what I needed to. But I was in front of the computer, so it felt like I punished myself enough, as if that was the goal.