I meant to blog about this around Kane's birthday but forgot. Oops.
For Kane's first birthday we bought him a fish tank and 3 gold fish. This was inspired by his reaction whenever we walk into Pet Smart. He really likes the fish and we look at them regularly but he's not exactly attached. My husband on the other hand, feeds them everyday and cleans their tank, he's formed a small bond with our fish.
On the day of Kane's second birthday I was walking passed the tank when I noticed the fish acting weird, upon further inspection I discovered that two of the fish had ganged up on the other fish and had eaten its tail off. The poor tailless guy was just sitting on the bottom of the tank while the other two were bullying him. I put a lot of extra food in to distract the other two which worked and texted Jed a picture of our situation. We decided to try to keep them all well fed and distracted until Jed could get home from work.
We had read online that sometimes fish will grow back their tails but our guy wasnt much of a fighter. He threw in the towel a few hours later and we were forced to flush him. Sad day. On the bright side though I thought all 3 would be dead long before the first year so 2 out of 3 isn't bad! Then again, I'm not sure how I feel about having the cannibalistic fishies left and Jed's pretty upset with them....
For Kane's first birthday we bought him a fish tank and 3 gold fish. This was inspired by his reaction whenever we walk into Pet Smart. He really likes the fish and we look at them regularly but he's not exactly attached. My husband on the other hand, feeds them everyday and cleans their tank, he's formed a small bond with our fish.
On the day of Kane's second birthday I was walking passed the tank when I noticed the fish acting weird, upon further inspection I discovered that two of the fish had ganged up on the other fish and had eaten its tail off. The poor tailless guy was just sitting on the bottom of the tank while the other two were bullying him. I put a lot of extra food in to distract the other two which worked and texted Jed a picture of our situation. We decided to try to keep them all well fed and distracted until Jed could get home from work.
We had read online that sometimes fish will grow back their tails but our guy wasnt much of a fighter. He threw in the towel a few hours later and we were forced to flush him. Sad day. On the bright side though I thought all 3 would be dead long before the first year so 2 out of 3 isn't bad! Then again, I'm not sure how I feel about having the cannibalistic fishies left and Jed's pretty upset with them....
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