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Anyways, I have food pellets and freeze dried bloodwarms for his diet. Since I just got him today, I only fed him about 3 pellets. He didn’t seem interested in them, just let them sink. I don’t know if he ate them yet.

The tank I’m using is a 2 gallon, hexagon with a LED light and a very quiet filter that doesn’t bother him. I didn’t use gravel for his tank, but these marble-rock like things. Kind of like in mosaic tiles. I also have a bridge I bought at the same time and my mom insisted on adding this fish standee and floating bobber that held a fish as well. I used natural spring water from the store to fill the tank. He has plenty of space to swim around in.

Ever since I put him into his new tank from that small, plastic cup, he’s been sticking to the side of the tank. I’m not quite sure but I’m assuming he’s seeing his reflection and trying to attack it. He also gapes his mouth open ever now and then then closes it. About 20 minutes ago, when I walked up to the tank to check up on him, he started wildly swimming around for a moment then went back to the side. Was he excited to see me?

I would really like to know if he feels comfortable and what I could do to make him happier. Any advice at all would be appreciated, I read up on bettas last night so I’d like to learn things from other people too. Thank you~

The responders so far don’t seem to be any better informed than you are, so I will make some suggestions.
First: do NOT use bottled water of any type. It lacks essential minerals. Use room-temperature tap water treated with a conditioner/de-chlorinator. AquaSafe and Start Right are two good brands.
A proper home for a Betta is at least a 5 gallon tank with hood, heater, and gentle filter. Anything less is cruelty to these beautiful fish. Bettas must have heaters, they are tropical fish.
I recommend going to a book store and/or library and getting some beginner’s books on aquarium keeping, and also on Bettas. There is a lot more to learn than what can be absorbed in one night.
It is normal for a Betta to not eat for a day or two after being put in a new tank. He needs to get settled in. He will not eat food after it has sank. Net it out if he doesn’t eat it, to keep from fouling the water.
Do further research and get him a proper home if you’d like to see him live the full 5+ healthy, happy years he is capable of.

Way back during the eighth century, Europe was still knee-deep in the Medieval period. That’s not the only thing they were knee-deep in. In his book, “The Day The Universe Changed,” the historian James Burke describes how the typical European townspeople lived:

“The inhabitants threw all their refuse into the drains in the center of the narrow streets. The stench must have been overwhelming, though it appears to have gone virtually unnoticed. Mixed with excrement and urine would be the soiled reeds and straw used to cover the dirt floors. (p. 32)

This squalid society was organized under a feudal system and had little that would resemble a commercial economy. Along with other restrictions, the Catholic Church forbade the lending of money – which didn’t help get things booming much. “Anti-Semitism, previously rare, began to increase. Money lending, which was forbidden by the Church, was permitted under Jewish law.” (Burke, 1985, p. 32) Jews worked to develop a currency although they were heavily persecuted for it. Medieval Europe was a miserable lot, which ran high in illiteracy, superstition, barbarism and filth.

During this same time, Muslims entered Europe from the South. Abd al-Rahman I, a survivor of a family of caliphs of the Muslim empire, reached Spain in the mid-700’s. He became the first Caliph of Al-Andalus, the Muslim part of Spain, which occupied most of the Iberian Peninsula. He also set up the Umayyad Dynasty that ruled Al-Andalus for over three-hundred years. (Grolier, History of Spain). Al Andalus means, “the land of the vandals,” from which comes the modern name Andalusia.

At first, the land resembled the rest of Europe in all its squalor. But within two-hundred years the Muslims had turned Al-Andalus into a bastion of culture, commerce and beauty.

“Irrigation systems imported from Syria and Muslimia turned the dry plains… into an agricultural cornucopia. Olives and wheat had always grown there. The Muslims added pomegranates, oranges, lemons, aubergines, artichokes, cumin, coriander, bananas, almonds, pams, henna, woad, madder, saffron, sugar-cane, cotton, rice, figs, grapes, peaches, apricots and rice.” (Burke, 1985, p. 37)

By the beginning of the ninth century, Muslim Spain was the gem of Europe with its capital city, Cordova. With the establishment of Abd al-Rahman III – “the great caliphate of Cordova” – came the golden age of Al-Andalus. Cordova, in southern Spain, was the intellectual center of Europe.

At a time when London was a tiny mud-hut village that “could not boast of a single streetlamp” (Digest, 1973, p. 622), in Cordova…

“…there were half a million inhabitants, living in 113,000 houses. There were 700 mosques and 300 public baths spread throughout the city and its twenty-one suburbs. The streets were paved and lit.” (Burke, 1985, p. 38)

“The houses had marble balconies for summer and hot-air ducts under the mosaic floors for the winter. They were adorned with gardens with artificial fountains and orchards”. (Digest, 1973, p. 622) “Paper, a material still unknown to the west, was everywhere. There were bookshops and more than seventy libraries.” (Burke, 1985, p. 38).

In his book titled, “Spain In The Modern World,” James Cleuge explains the significance of Cordova in Medieval Europe:

“For there was nothing like it, at that epoch, in the rest of Europe. The best minds in that continent looked to Spain for everything which most clearly differentiates a human being from a tiger.” (Cleugh, 1953, p. 70)

During the end of the first millennium, Cordova was the intellectual well from which European humanity came to drink. Students from France and England traveled there to sit at the feet of Muslim, Christian and Jewish scholars, to learn philosophy, science and medicine (Digest, 1973, p. 622). In the great library of Cordova alone, there were some 600,000 manuscripts (Burke, 1978, p. 122).

Actually they were and still are the main reason for the dark ages and at those times they were also responsible for the Bubonic plague.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

my balloon mollies had 7fry and they are 2black and white,3orange and black,and 2 look just white.iv never seen a blue or red molly.not sure about the others cause i dont own them.

Thanks

You need to sit down with a builder local to you. If you want some rough estimates, have a real estate agent show you the prices of her new construction listings in your local area.

surfacing important buildings with glazed and baked mud bricks
painting images onto the surface of sun-dried mud bricks
constructing walls of important buildings using marble blocks
adding images to walls that depict scenes of everyday life

2. Which statement is true about the Egyptian Book of the Dead?
It depicted figures with body parts in their most recognizable position.

It depicts figures with true-to-life scale, regardless of their status.

It told stories of the life and accomplishments of deceased pharaohs.

It contains images and stories about the lives of Egyptian tomb builders.

3. Which of the following correctly describes the Parthenon in Greece?

the use of Ionic columns
mathematical ratios, symmetry, and proportion
a massive dome that once topped the structure
carved relief sculptures inspired by Egyptian temple columns

4. Which sentence describes a convention of Classical Greek sculpture?

Figures reflect the Greek belief in the human body as a source of shame.
Figures are depicted as true-to-life without idealized features.
Figures have dramatic facial expressions and dynamic poses
Figures are depicted with idealized beauty and perfect proportions.

5. Which statement describes a characteristic of Classical Greek relief sculpture from the Parthenon frieze?

Figures reflect a combination of naturalistic detail and ideal beauty.
The story records a series of isolated events in the life of the ruler of Athens.
It is in high relief so that objects are undercut and appear detached from the flat background.
Figures have exaggerated proportions that give the sculpture a sense of drama.

6. Which statement correctly describes how Roman architects designed the Pantheon?

They designed the temple walls with mosaics and frescoes done in vivid colors.
They created a pediment that depicts a scene from Roman history.
They designed the temple’s exterior by incorporating features of Greek architecture.
They made an architectural plan based on the use of the Christian cross.

7. Which of the following describes how ancient Roman triumphal arches reflect beliefs of the time?

They demonstrate the belief in the separation of church and state.
They commemorate and glorify Roman emperors and war victories.
They reflect the importance of religion in the Roman Empire.
They show the elevated status of Roman architects and sculptors.

8. What is a distinguishing characteristic of Roman figurative sculpture as seen in Augustus of Primaporta?

It depicts the exact likeness of Emperor Augustus without idealized features.
It was used to reflect the Roman belief that gods and people did not interact.
It has idealized features that glorify the youth and authority of the emperor.
It was a statement of the caring nature of Roman fathers toward their children.

9. Which characteristic best describes Chinese brush paintings?

They depict idealized representations of the human form.
They include small touches of gold paint to add decorative detail.
They feature a limited variety of brushstrokes in order to create a sense of unity.
They depict humans as being small alongside towering trees and mountains.

10. How do Japanese artists create woodblock prints such as The Drum-Bridge at the Kameido Tenjin Shrine?

They divide the image into four equal sections and print one part at a time.
They print the large shapes of color by using rubber stamps and then hand paint the fine outlines.
They brush ink onto hand-carved wooden blocks and then transfer the image onto wa-shi paper.
They assemble the image by using very thin slices of wood, which is then inked and printed.

Again, I don’t know them all, but here’s a few:

3) mathematical ratios, symmetry, and proportion

4) Figures are depicted with idealized beauty and perfect proportions.

5) Figures have exaggerated proportions that give the sculpture a sense of drama.

7) They commemorate and glorify Roman emperors and war victories.