Rest in Peace Morpheus

this is a pic of my new (second) fish...

my first fish, morpheus "mo" fishser, died between noon and 2pm yesterday.

i took his fungusy body, in its fungusy tank, back to the pet store. and pleaded for help. the nice, kind man at the fish counter... we'll call him trent... cause he looked like a trent, trent took the bowl from me, said he would take care of mo. and for me to go pick out another one.

i was tempted to think i failed at my first pet experience, but mo had that fungus on one fin when i bought him. and when i saw the fungus had spread to more fins, took him in for fungus drops. administered them as i should, and it still got worse... so now i'm tempted to tell myself i did everything i could...

either way, i think trent sent mo to a fish amusement park, and right now, he's riding the water slide. :)

so, trent disinfected the tank, the rocks, cleaned the live plants, and put everything back with fresh warm water. and my new fish... my small, dark, and handsome, ladies' manfish... seemed italian to me... so his name is giovanni. gio for short.

and he's happy. he swims a lot. he's smaller than morpehus, but he's got a fan fin, which makes him very easy to look at. :) but he's a little harder to find in the bowl.