WisCON (fish) Addendum

[lydamorehouse]

I forgot to finish the sad tale of the tetra.  Though our house sitter dutifully looked for floaters and corpses stuck to the bio filter, she never could have anticipated the horror of the mass tetra suicide pact.  When I went upstairs to check on them, I found what looked like an empty tank.  I thought, “Uh-oh, they’re all dead and stuck under the pagoda feature.”

 

Close.

 

Except what I found was a moldy fusion of all six tetra stuck to one of the plants in the backside of the tank (where they liked sleeping, actually).  I couldn’t even separate them to flush.  They got a mass burial in the garbage can.

 

Eeeeeeeeeeew.

 

My only comfort is that they went out as a team, a pod, a troop.  Also, if our house sitter dosed them as instructed (which I have no doubt she did,) they felt little pain – PemaFix has a tiny amount of clove oil in it to provide pain relief.  Plus, goddess knows, if I’d been around they would have been subjected to any number of chemical baths in my attempts to fix them.

 

Piranha did not survive.  God rest his soul.

Comments

[swords-and-pens.livejournal.com]

Gucci, gucci.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

[holy-toledo.livejournal.com]

Gucci Gucci. I hope the next batch stays away from the Kool-Aid.

-Mel

[davidlevine]

::sympathies::

("Gucci, Gucci"??)

[lydamorehouse]

"Gucci, gucci" was the spontaneous benediction that Mason's toddler mind came up with for the first fish that had to be flushed. It's become kind of a tradtion now. :-)

[davidlevine]

Sounds Latin to me. Obviously either Mason is Catholic, or Catholics have toddler minds.

(ducking and running)

[skinismy13.livejournal.com]

=(

i dosed daily, but they disappeared after the first day. shoulda looked closer to ensure a proper flushing. gucci gucci.

[lydamorehouse]

Aw, you don't have to feel bad. They were sick before we left.

[tacithydra.livejournal.com]

Oh no! So all the fishes are gone? =O

[lydamorehouse]

No, only those in the upstairs tank. The two goldfish - Joe and Fergus are alive and well (Joe having been with us since the very beginning.) Also, at least two shrimp are alive... and several unnammed snails. :-)

[tacithydra.livejournal.com]

If you're ever debating the value of colonizing other planets for the survival of our species, this is an excellent illustration of the concept.