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January 2, 2007
Officially Fishless
The day before New Year's Eve we noticed that our angel fish Michael was swimming upside down and generally just listing about. Given her age (yes she's a girl...They both were we found out later though we had initially named them Michael and Gabriel) I was sad, but figured it was the way things went.
On New Year's Eve when I was taking down the Christmas tree I noticed that our albino catfish was out and about, which is very rare. We go for months with out seeing the little guy. Then I started thinking about it and realized I hadn't seen the Beta fish in a few days so I decided to do some tank maintenance and trim the aquarium plants and see if he rematerialized. The minute I stuck my hand into the tank the problem became immediately obvious...The water was cold!
Apparently sometime in the past week or so the plug for the tank heater had come unplugged and the temperature of the water had dropped to around 67. Michael died not long after we noticed this development and she was too big to flush so Jamison buried her in the flower bed and I moved the two little fish left to a smaller habitat, but the cold, along with the stress of the move did them in. I found them this morning in their new home both dead and Alexis and I had a flushy funeral.
So we are now fishless. We dismantled the tank Sunday afternoon after Michael died and we moved the smaller fish. We decided not to refill the tank because it is my greatest desire to move out of this house at some point this year so when we get a new house we'll set it back up. I think this time we'll do goldfish since Alexis loves them so. But for now we have only hermit crabs and the fish tank shelf has become a table for Alexis' toys and small easel.
No fish...Very sad indeed.
Posted by Dianne at January 2, 2007 10:22 AM
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