Let us begin with our glorious Easter Sunday, the celebration of Jesus'
Okay back to Easter - the celebration of Jesus' RESURRECTION...yes the resurrection when the Easter bunny brings chocolate and stuff....Anyhow this year the bunny brought the boy a new aquarium, 5 gallon tank to be exact - see below....
So the boy lived and breathed getting the tank ready for his new pets - bought the heater, the gravel, the fancy plant, and hidey rock. We waited the required amount of time to let the water "settle" in the tank and then off we went back to Pet Smart to pick out our new lucky aquatic friends.
The boy decided on 3 new friends - 2 very small little Blue Guppies (Steve and Tango) and one very large Rock Shrimp (Rocky).
Below are pictures of their first day in their new home
Letting them get acclimatized to their new environment
Then the release
Oh happiness!! They loved their new home and the boy loved them so!!!
Rocky sits on his rock flicking his little "arms?" which looked like he was playing some imaginary piano - sooo cute!!
Steve and Tango love playing tag chasing each other in the tank
Oh joy and happiness!! Oh yes... yes...yesssss!
Then Tuesday everything changed (I'm sure you all felt a shift in the universe)....Steve was no longer swimming around chasing Tango, our beautiful new friend, Steve, was lying on the bottom of tank, yes, he was gone.....
So the traditional burial at sea was peformed for our dear fishy friend through the magic of the toilet.
This was not the first toilet funeral the boy has experienced - some of you may remember Flappy and his early demise in 2007
(Oh yes, I really did take pictures of this...and check out how clean the toilet is!!)
The boy was understandably upset but put on a brave face for Tango and Rocky's sake.
Imagine the difficulty the boy had falling asleep knowing his trio of aquatic brothers were now down a man...
The next day the boy soldiered on, putting his grief aside, and off to school he went.
Then...you guessed it....The HORROR....the HORROR!!!!! Rocky now too was no longer literally "swimming with the fishes" but "swimming with the fishes" mafia style that is....he had joined his fellow comrade in that giant fish tank in the sky...
Now of course the toilet burial was not appropriate due to Rocky's size - not that he was enormous but anyone who has had the pleasure of using our plumbing here know that anything larger than a pebble will likely cause an overflow....
So Rocky was lovingly placed in a beautiful "Fredya" jewellery box (seriously it was a nice box, Fredya jewellery rocks) and we will be holding the outside burial this weekend. Now before you wonder if Rocky is starting to smell less than pleasant, rest assured he is in the freezer - ironically right next to the bag of jumbo shrimp the boy loves to eat.....
So then there was one - poor Tango, oh how alone he must feel, the boy was very concerned for his mental health, tried to reassure him that things would be okay...but wait...the boy thought for sure he was.....smiling?
Hmmmm....could this be a matter of foul play....murder on the high seas????
Needless to say the tone of our home has been quite somber since Rocky's passing....the boy has been overly concerned for the well-being of our remaining friend - so much that a prompt washing out of the tank and new water was completed last night in the hopes that Tango will be spared an early death and that the mumma will stop calling his aquarium the "TANK OF DEATH".
Even the dog could sense something was wrong.....
Honestly I think I know what has caused the deaths......our 14 day guarantee ended on Monday...mystery solved.
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