nefertiti's Journal

3 fish died in 1 day :[
Aug 28 2008 00:08

So I bought this ugly black (I think goldfish) fish with black googly eyes two weeks ago, his name was Gertrude. Yes, I realize it's a girl's name but back to the point.. I changed his water today, and he sank to the bottom with this desperate look in his eyes. He looked like he was struggling to breathe and I could tell he was dying. I flushed him because I could tell he was in a lot of pain and it was freaking me out.

Then I go to Wal-Mart with my friend Steph and buy the sickest (in a good way), coolest, most agile bright yellow fish ever. I named him Samuel L. Jackson. Put him in the water, he suddenly lost his pep and energy and sank towards the bottom. I thought SURELY this wouldn't happen again. I do some reading for school, and then my friend Josh comes over. I tell him, "Look at my new fish!" and he's like, "Dude, your fish is dead." No shit, Samuel L. Jackson died. :[

So we went out to dinner and said he wanted to take me to Wal-Mart to buy me a new fish. I even bought a gallon of spring water, just in case it was the tap water that was killing the fish. Long story short that motherfucker died too.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

-I used room temperature water.

-I let the fish get acclimated to the water so it wasn't a shock to them.

- I used that chlorine stuff for the water.

This has never happened to me before; I had to flush THREE fish today. I'm so upset. I'm never owning another fish again ever :[

The only thing I can think of is that the chlorine stuff like went bad or something? It wasn't the gravel or the fake plant, because Gertrude had been fine for 2 weeks. And it wasn't the water, because the third time I used awesome bottled water. No clue, but I feel so so shitty about it.

Oh and please don't leave any smartass comments like, "Oh wow, good job Nora! You're a fish murderer!" because you can just go ahead a suck a dick. I loved those effing fish.