RIP Kettle the Shubunkin....

[gothams3rdrobin]

I just found one of Rowan's goldfish dead on the bottom of the tank....

They're not quite two years old yet, though I'm personally amazed they've lasted this long.

However, there's a slight element of guilty feeling on my part; I decided last week to buy a new, bigger tank for them as they're adult now and looked to be finding the old tank a little cramped. The cashier at the petshop tried to disuade me from buying the tank I got, which was merely a larger model of their original tank, citing new protocols stating that all goldfish tanks should have filters built in. I explained that I'd been keeping them quite well in their original tank for nearly two years, and she put her hands up in surrender, her expression very "Whatever, you ignorant pet abuser." *sighs*

So the fact that, a week later, one of them's dead? Yeah.

Le sigh

Now I have to tell Rowan when he gets home this evening.

Comments

[suchthefangirl.livejournal.com]

We had guppies when I was a kid. I will not tell you how many chose to jump the tank. It was a sad sad thing.

I do not envy you telling Rowan. It is not fun. But don't blame yourself. Just remember, you still have another one. Sadly for them, fish are fairly replaceable.

*hugs*

[gothams3rdrobin.livejournal.com]

Thankfully he took it surprisingly well. Maybe because, while they're his fish, he's pretty bad at remembering to feed them and stuff, so the responsibility - predictably - has always fallen to me.

He was sad for the little thing, though.