So this morning...or maybe last night....I lost my male platie sad
I lost my favorite platie last month. One of my females. I'm not like, broken up about it, but I am bummed out a lil. I dunno if maybe they were older than I thought, cause my water has tested perfect all month. I'll admit I haven't done a water change since Sunny passed last month, but only cause I didn't even have a trace of nitrates. I did see that Flounder was looking worse every week. He almost appeared to be shrinking, or maybe he wasn't eating and I hadn't noticed. Lately his fins looked a bit shredded. Yesterday he looked like he was having trouble swimming. I know I SHOULD have set up a hospital tank for him. I have the extra tank but no heater for it, so I feel a lil bit at fault here.

When I got Flounder, about, 9 or 10 months ago, he tried to eat the string that tied the plants to the driftwood. I managed to catch him and pull it out. On the bright side, I have a dozen of his offspring. WIth just Dawn left now, I won't be having any more babies. It has been nice to have baby fish popping up in the tank. But it's getting to be a bit much for my betta. I really hope that Dawn and Flunder's oldest baby is a girl. Because I'd like to keep her without worrying about having a constant plattie population. Course if I do keep her, it means I'll have a platie in the tank, just one after Dawn passes, for a good 3yrs or more right? I was hoping to be able to get rid of the divider eventually and let Zuko have the whole tank again.

It's a tough choice. But I'll have to put the rest of the babies for sale soon. So I'll have to figure it out soon. If I do sell all the babies I'll have to figure out what to try next when Dawn passes. Some kind of fish that won't bully my betta lol.

Do you think Fish mourn? Dawn is just hanging around Flounders body. I dunno if it's cause she wants to eat him lol. Haven't seen her doing that yet. I'll give her a few mins and then I'll flush him.