FISHIES!

We bought 25 fish yesterday to stock our tank. We DID have a betta, two fancy guppies and some tetras buuuuuuut I might have forgot to turn the tank heater on when we were gone and the temps went very low (grrr) and all but one fishie froze to death. Yes I feel appropriately terrible. I did however bring one fancy guppy back to life and he is now King Shit of all the other fishes and bosses them around so I feel the tiniest bit better knowing that I saved his life... even though I totally caused the reason for his near death experience... and the death of my other fish... well let's forget all that, Christmas is not the time for guilt!


Anyhoo we went to Big Al's for their BOXING DAY BLOWOUT (PRICES SO LOW WE MUST BE CRAZY!) and ended up buying a net, a ph/ammonia tester and 25 fish for $75 bucks. Not too bad.

 I had done research on all of the fish I was planning on buying except the Rummynose tetras I wanted had Ich so I ended up getting some GOLDEN PANCHANXes instead because Mat liked the look of them. I asked the guy multiple times if they would be okay with the other fish, namely the neon tetras and he promised me they would. They had the "Community tank" sticker on their cage too. Fucking liarfaces.

Not 10 minutes into putting the fish together the panchanxes were eating and chasing the poor neons. I was horrified to see a panchanx (which is not a huge fish by any means) swimming around with the tail end of a neon tetra hanging out of its mouth. It was also kind of cool to see but that is evil and heartless of me so forget I said that. I had no choice but to put the neons in a bucket and unfortunately a few died overnight so looks like the three lone survivors (out of 9) are stuck living in the big tank until they get eaten or the store lets me return them. *They aren't accepting returns during their BOXING WEEK BLOWOUT!*
I also watched one of the Panchaxes taking a gigantic neon tetra sized poop today. Nature is WHACK!



DEAR NEON TETRAS,
I'M SO SORRY LITTLE FISHIES I DIDN'T KNOW THE INNOCENT LOOKING YELLOW FISH OF DEATH WOULD EAT YOU AND I KNOW THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT BETTER BUT I DIDN'T! I SHOULD HAVE RESEARCHED THE SPECIES BUT I THOUGHT I COULD TRUST A FISH STORE BECAUSE LIKE THAT IS THEIR ONLY JOB, TO SELL FISH AND NOT LET PEOPLE BUY FISH THAT WILL EAT ALL THEIR OTHER FISH. MY SINCEREST APOLOGIES FOR GETTING YOU EATEN.   DON'T WORRY, KARMA WILL GET ME ONE DAY.  -TARA

Also- one of the fancy guppies is missing so I am quite sure one of the Death Fish of Death ate it. I don't know HOW such a small fish could eat an entire guppy but I had three guppies and now I have two. My super good math skills tells me that that means one is missing. Bad fishies!