help name my fish!

**kafine** · 03-27-2006 01:46 PM

I vote Alex.

I think he looks like an Alex.

(is that bowl his permenant home? He might need something bigger...)

**OpheliaBlue** · 03-27-2006 03:25 PM

Originally posted by PhowaBoy
Rusalka</span> (for those of you who may be opera fans * )

HECK yeah!! I remember that opera, I sang "Song to the Moon" from it in college.

Anyway, I was hesitant to give this fish a female name, considering that he\'s a he. But I\'ve been watching this one, and I don\'t think he bats for the same team as the other betas.

So Rusalka is perfect, I love it!

Originally posted by kafine
is that bowl his permenant home? He might need something bigger...

haha definitely not, I just took that picture before I moved him to Orpheus\'s old gallon size bowl. I\'m going out today to get some more pretty rocks and marbles for it.

Introducing......[b]<span style="color:green">R:

edit: ok seriously, this fish loves to pose for the camera lol

**mongreloctopus** · 03-27-2006 05:58 PM

Originally posted by OpheliaBlue

haha definitely not, I just took that picture before I moved him to Orpheus's old gallon size bowl. I'm going out today to get some more pretty rocks and marbles for it.

yikes, i hope he's not superstitious...or have you not told him about the death in his new home..?

**CryoDragoon** · 03-27-2006 08:09 PM

HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII RUSALKA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Amethyst Star** · 03-27-2006 08:16 PM

Yeah! The Russians triumph again!

But actually, I hadn't heard of the Rusalka. I've heard about the myth of the Vodinoi, though, who is the guardian over all the lakes, rivers, etc. He's also known for pulling people under the water and then those people have to serve him. He can sometimes take on the image of a horse but also the image of a naked old man with green slime in his hair.

I'll have to look into the Rusalka. Is that the name of the opera?

*waves to happy fishy*

**OpheliaBlue** · 03-27-2006 08:41 PM

Originally posted by Ame
I'll have to look into the Rusalka. Is that the name of the opera?

oh it's not a Russian opera, it's sung in czech, composed by Antonin Dvorák (pronounced duh VOR zhack), who based the story on czech fairy tales

however the term Rusalka was probably russian, and the original story may have been russian, before the librettist took it and translated it into czech, but I'm not sure (still researching that)

edit: there is a less popular opera written by russian composer, Alexander Dargomyzhsky, also titled 'Rusalka' (Русалка), though it was translated INTO Russian from an English play version of the story

rusalki also appear in May Night (Майская ночь) by Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who adapted the libretto from Nikolai Gogol’s story "Майская ночь,или Утопленница" (Majskaja noč', ili Utoplennica" = "May Night, or The Drowned Maiden").

so I suppose the 'Rusalka' legend is possibly known throughout all slavic cultures...but in which country it originated I do not know...Russian would be my best guess

**Amethyst Star** · 03-28-2006 04:09 AM

*insert research project* Thanks, Ophelia!

**♥Mark** · 03-28-2006 09:41 AM

Yeah, Leviathan is cool, but he costs like 50 mp to summon. Also that is a tough fish's name and this fish is obviously a sissy. I'd name him Skippy or Slappy or something... Magikarp...

Eh? What's that? You already named him..? There's still time to change it to Skippy!

**mongreloctopus** · 03-28-2006 12:19 PM

Originally posted by Mark75
Yeah, Leviathan is cool, but he costs like 50 mp to summon.

don't you mean 9 mana, four which has to be island? plus, don't forget the cummulative upkeep, but i guess for a 10/10 trample it's worth it, eh

**A Lost Soul** · 03-28-2006 02:36 PM

Originally posted by mongreloctopus

don't you mean 9 mana, four which has to be island? plus, don't forget the cummulative upkeep, but i guess for a 10/10 trample it's worth it, eh

Oh my shit. I actually understood that. (I played Beta through Ice Age)

**Distant Clone** · 03-30-2006 09:37 PM

Originally posted by fajam00m00
Name him Aquarius!

Then, every time he has a birthday, you can sing:
When the moon is in the 7th house and Jupiter aligns with Mars!!!
Then blah blah blah.
Blah blah.
THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE (say number of years here) OF AQUARIUS! AGE (here too) OF AQUARIUS! AQUARIUS!!!! AQUARIUS!!!

Yup.

Please tell me that's not from a rock opera named Hair. If it is...I think I actually learned something during college.

**docKnubis** · 04-05-2006 04:35 AM

so i remeber this one time i had a fish and i called it bonzi and it was cool and he always swam in circles and if you tapped on the tank it would almost have heart attack

or was that my uncle