Another One Bites The Dust

The girls got new pets a few months back. Paige picked a kitty (see post below) and Piper picked fish. We went to the store and she picked out a Beta and the man at the fish store said that she could have some Tetras in there too because they are fast swimming. Yeah right.

We came home with Otto the Beta (she got the name from the book Fish Out of Water), and Nemo, Coral, and Genevieve the Tetras. Well Genevieve bit it within 24 hours so we got her body out and took her back to the fish store and tada a new Genevieve was had. Things were going great until Piper couldn't find one of the Tetras. Well Bob found it (or what was left of it) sucked into the filter. I guess we managed to get either really slow Tetras or a really fast Beta. She was okay with it and decided that it was Genevieve that had died. Nemo and Coral held on for a while until she came bouncing down the stairs to turn her tank light on and then the awful scream came. Another one down. I got that out and we had a small funeral for it in the downstairs bathroom. I was really hoping that Nemo would be able to make it alone, but who was I fooling.

Last weekend the girls were downstairs coloring when we got up. I came down and Piper happily said "I turned on my fishtank light." Great job! I went to look in the tank and saw the awful sight of Otto swimming round with a lifeless Nemo in his mouth! I quickly yelled for Bob to get downstairs and we all gathered for yet another fish funeral. Now we are left with just that SOB Otto the fish killer. He's lucky he is pretty to look at and that Piper still loves him.