Because I fed her and the rest of her eager mates in water world every morning?
Because I was excited when Alex the Fish Man said yesterday she was bloated and may be ready to have babies?
Alex the Fish Man is on speed dial. I told him she was laying on her side, panting as she stared at me. He said she could have been bloated because of a something-something disease. The companions continued to swim by her, nudging her. “Get up. Get up!,” they said.
I turned up the oxygen level as told. Her panting slowed but she did not get up.
The others stared at me like saying, “aren’t you going to do anything?”
A brief visit to my computer, I went back to check. No movement. Nothing. Gone.
All I could do was say, “I’m sorry.” And to the others, I said the same.
Life.
As I often say, during the good or the bad, “There goes that Universe again.”
She was still alive in this photo. Posting her dead would have been callous.
Carolyn Dennis-Willingham 
Aw, poor fishie. I’m sorry for your loss.
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Thanks! Just hard to watch.
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One of my oldest just went the same way a few weeks ago. It is hard to watch. But for a fish, he was old, so I tell myself it was bound to happen, just like it does to all of us. That’s not easy to watch either. 😦
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One of your oldest?
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One of my oldest fish. He was at least 7 years old.
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Wow! That’s a long time! I just removed the little deceased. I buried him under a rock in the creek. I just couldn’t flush him or throw him away!
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Mine was to big to flush. I had to bury him. I’ve had fish for years but that one lived to one of the biggest and one of the oldest I ever had.
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