An older video of my celestial pearl danios. They were a new addition to this tank and still dealing with a chronic wasting disease that is very common with this species. That’s cleared up now thanks to trial and error with some medication, and their color is incredible now! Very fat and happy and laying tons of eggs. I’ll try to get a vid of them now posted soon 🎏
first proper talisman created in accordance with Christopher Warnock’s Fixed Star, Sign and Constellation Magic.
reflections:
i really enjoyed making this spica talisman. while i have made a paper talisman before using John Michael Greer’s The Art and Practice of Geomancy, i found that one to be rather ineffective and boring to make with its intricate details. the beauty in this one (for me) was its simplicity and customisabilty, and though it took me some time to work out how to determine when a degree of a planet was rising (apparently my reading of Bernadette Brady’s Brady’s Book of Fixed Stars was for naught!), i particularly enjoyed designing a simple incense and things to add to the talisman to amplify my working (i didn’t have trefoil, sage, mandrake or the others, and had to improvise!). all in all, i rather enjoyed making this talisman and while i hope it will work, i definitely don’t mind experimenting to see how to make it more effective.
One of the smallest fish in the world, this fish is nearly completely transparent save for some melanophores on its body and its organs. This species is so small, in fact, that a part of its skull is open and it has one of the smallest brain of any known adult vertebrate!
(Phantom with his shoaling, schooling in the night.)
At first Danny had been weary of the fish-like blobs that had followed him fro the ghost zone.
But after a talk with his friend in the GZ he learned that they integral for the ghost zone ecto system as they feed on and neutralize bad ecto.
As in all the negatively charged ecto and hazardous ecto. Danny who unfortunately, have to deal with spirits who exude negative ecto, not to mention living in a house where ecto experiments tend to be hazardous, not to mention the negative ecto he produces due to the negative things he experienced. got the attention of the Danios.
Unlike Vlad he didn't want to get rid of them as he end up seeing them as more of pets,he saw them as harmless and beneficial as they made his chore of cleaning the lab ten times easier. In contrast to Vlad, who saw them more as flees and did everything in his power to keep them away as he learned pretty quick that you can only keep them out as trying to destroy them with blasts and so on, only made them feed and multiply, mitosis style after eating all the ecto and going big only to spit in to bunch on normal sized ones.
The stable portal in amity had at this point, leek in enough ambient ecto that the Danios could stay with Danny at the other side. and over time as Danny did his duties, some his Danios would multiply and gravitate towards people in amity has had been negatively ecto exposed. Lucky or unlucky one of the first one to get a pair of Danio's from him was Paulina. He had explained to her what his ghost friend had told him about them.
So of course she told the whole school about her new pets Phantom gave her and what they did.
And from there they end up multiplying and migrating to different students in the school.
2-3 was the norm for most, though Phantom was seen as so cool for being able to keep all the colors.
But for the most part people tried keeping their favorites. Sometimes that means as many colors as they could or a matching set.
Most of them agreed that Fenton was lucky to get as many as Phantom had but considering what was in the Fenton home it was kinda a no-brainer, that he would be able to "support" more of them.
Danny also being the space nerd he is also definitely did not squeal when he found some of the coloed had space-themed names. And decided to keep that for their names.
The (Yellow) Glowlight Danio, he named Solaris.
White - Yoma Danio, he named Selene.
Green- Electric Green Danio, he named Nishimura.
Red - Starfire Red Danio, he Named Starfire.
Orange - Sunburst Orange Danio, he kept the name Sunburst as he liked it.
Blue - Cosmic Blue Danio, Cosmic was kept for the same reason.
Purple - Galactic Purple Danio, he also liked Galactic.
Pink - Rosy Danio was named Nebulae.