The little / loner Fire fish died today.
I'm not sure when. We found him when we went to feed them tonight. I took him out & saved him on a piece of toilet paper. Jake wants to bury him. It prompted lots more sadness and tears and Jacob saying he wished we got a freshwater tank because he thinks those fish are not as fragile :(
Poor little dude (my son, not the fish.)
I think he was OK by the time he went to bed. It definitely helped to have him see the fish dead in the water & approve me taking it out and them to examine it dead on the counter.
On a possibly related note - the top rock and some of the sand is very green. I just noticed this today too. I think it is probably not the cause of little "Fire's" death and is being caused by too much sunlight. I'll put towels up in his windows tomorrow to reduce the light until we get blinds. We need to talk to Randy and see what to do to fix it. Are we also supposed to have something rotting still in there? There isn't any salmon left.
We gotta keep on top of this. Aside from the monetary investment that we could lose, our son's little heart will break beyond repair!
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:( so sad. Zane's first pet died this year. We found out Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers) has a really great book we borrowed from the library about when a pet dies. Zane read it in private when he did not want to talk about it.
http://www.amazon.com/When-Pet-Dies-Fred-Rogers/dp/0698116666
Aah, poor little fish and poor Jacob. Life gives us some tough lessons to learn when still very young.
I must have missed a post, I didn't know you got an aquarium. I'm sad for Jacob. I hope things have improved.
You didn't miss one. I have mentioned it on facebook but haven't blogged about it. I need to. It was his Christmas present. It's actually been a lot of fun and he LOVES them. On the upside (?) we've had lots of fish die and he is now quite comfortable with death.
Maya had a series of goldfish in Australia but after losing something like 8 fish in about 6 months we decided fish ownership wasnt for us. Someone needs to invent robotic fish that look lifelike, eat, swim but don't die or need cleaning...
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