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    Please don't take my lovely donuts! It took me forever to make a repeating pattern of them!<br />
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    I do NOT accept random friend requests. Unless I recognize you from the forums/zOMG, I will decline.<br />
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    Things I can help you with as a Forum Assistant:<br />
    Move your thread out of Art Discussion or Minishops and into another, more suitable one. (I cannot move threads out of another, and into AD or Minishops tho.)<br />
    Answer any burning questions about Gaia. Such as where a thread would be appropriate, how to file a report, etc. I will not respond to any messages begging for gold/items.<br />
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    I cannot: Delete threads, delete posts, deal with reports, deal with other Terms of Service violations, ban a user, etc.<br />
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    Age: Uh. Infinity!<br />
    Birthday: August 31st<br />
    Likes: Art, art history, printing (screen, intaglio, and lino), digital art, graphic design, cooking/baking, computers, school (yes, I LIKE SCHOOL.), my beau Kurisu, music (jrock, jpop, world music, classic, techno/trance), string cheese, her pet rats<br />
    Dislikes: homophobes, people with monotone voices, my ex, most humans, cicadas, drawing animals<br />
    TV: Ace of Cakes, Good Eats, anything on Discovery, History, SyFy, Science, or sub channels of those channels (like Discovery Health), House, CSI Vegas, Law and Order SVU<br />
    Movies: Mononoke Hime, Moon Child, Beauty and the Beast, Thumbelina, Dante's Peak, Saw series, Harry Potter series, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, Cowboy Bebop, Formula 17<br />
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    I think I'm cute. I don't care if you don't.<br />
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    Artistic rendering of an artist (c'est moi...) with her two rats, Momo (albino) and Squirt (brownie).<br />
    Not pictured: Victoria, Ofelia, and Louie<br />
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    I'm the creep-tastic one behind the glass.<br />
    Fear me.<br />
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    THIS GIFT ART IS MADE OF WIN. EPIC WIN.<br />
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    LOVE IN A THUNDERSTORMS PUFFIES:<br />
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    Frequently Asked Puffie Questions:<br />
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    What ARE they?<br />
    They are green spotted puffers! Adorable little things.<br />
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    Are they freshwater or saltwater?<br />
    They were freshwater as babies (when I got them they were the size of my thumb nail) and then as they get older they switch to brackish/saltwater. My boys are kind of in transition. I introduced them to salt a couple months ago and am slowly adding a little bit more every time I clean the tank.<br />
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    How big are they?<br />
    Right now they're about an inch long. They can get up to six inches and live 15 years!<br />
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    What do they eat?<br />
    Mostly dried jumbo krill or live ghost shrimp. They also need crunchy things, like live shrim, little crabs, and snails to keep their teeth small. Kind of like beavers, their teeth don't stop growing and if they get too big they can't close their mouths or eat. For a little snack I'll toss them a little goldfish and watch them rip that thing apart. It's quite a show, to be honest. lol. Don't put your fingers in their tank when they're hungry, THEY BITE. ToT<br />
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    Do they have those sharp pokey things?<br />
    Yep, but they're hidden under the skin. When you look closely, there are little dots all over the fish's body, kind of like pores on your skin. When the fish puff up, the skin stretches and the spikes come out.<br />
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    Will you make them puff?<br />
    No, no no. When they puff up it means they're stressed and scared, and it could actually hurt them (and the other fish in my tank). I would never want my puffies to be anything other than the spastic, giddy little pigs with fins that they are.<br />
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    How do you tell them apart?<br />
    They have different spots on their little heads, of course!<br />
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    Why are they named Pip and Merry?<br />
    Well, when I first got Pip I was holding him on the way home (in the little bag, of course!) and he was swimming around really spastically and I imagined him saying "PIP PIP PIP PIP PIP PIP!" all sugar-high-like. I dunno why. I just did.<br />
    Then after a week or two I realized Pip was lonely in his tank, so I got him a friend. I sat there in front of the tank forever trying to name Pip's new brother, and then all of the sudden I was like "PIP AND MERRY! Like from Lord of the Rings! Pippin and Merry!"<br />
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    And thats how they were named. : )<br />
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