Purchasing tropical fish for my aquarium and having them all die within two days.
Not only the waste of money - but the loss of life. I feel bad for the fishies.
But what really irks me is that not only did the new purchases die, they brought with them some illness that took out most the fish I already had in my tank.
Twenty fish down, five remaining. The horror. The horror.
In my 41 years of having tropical fish as pets, I've never seen such devastation occur so quickly. Not only did I have very little time to react to try and save them, but I'm baffled because after two days, the remaining five fish are in perfect health.
The still-alive fish are not the same breed - three different ones - and are not all newly purchased fish. There's no rhyme nor reason. What ever killed my fish killed them. The ones that survived appear perfectly healthy.
I actually waited a whole week before writing this blog, a week after the last death to make sure I wasn't jumping the gun with the "healthy" fish. Nope. They are alive and kicking (you can see two of the five fish in the photo above).
What do I do now? These fish are schooling fish meaning they require a minimum of six of their own kind to swim with - it keeps them from mental anguish... but do I dare blow more money I don't have to keep my fish sane? And what if they get sick again?
I hate having new pet fish die.
