Wednesday, March 09, 2005

The Downside to Upside

Well, we named Upside so because he looked upside-down when he was swimming rightside-up. I thought that when he died, he would float upside-down and look like he was floating rightside-up. However, he didn't float at all. He sank to the bottom where our bootom feeder began to eat away at him. Yesterday, we noticed something like a boil on one side of his head that pushed up the scales behind his dead like headphones. He was struggling to fight the little current in the tank. It took us a while to find him today, but there he was, stuck next to the log.

So, that's the first fish that died before we flushed him.

1 comment:

JL! said...

This is a day that will live in infamy. I mourn with you.