Current mood:

nauseated

utterly revolting and awful
Misery loves company, right? how about revulsion? I don't know, but I'll give it a try.

We have a school of Zebra Danios in our tank. Some of them have funny tumors. Every once in a while, one looks pregnant. Well, one of them has been large for a long time, and about yesterday and today it became apparent that it's not pregnant, it has some weird bloating or tumor; it was improbably large, with its back arched and eyes bulging and a huge belly with little veins around it, and sort of gasping for breath (except fish don't breathe), and kind of listing to the side a little. I was wondering what to do with it, joking that it might explode....


Well, I saw a dwarf gourami swim up and give the danio's belly a nip. After the first nip, it was like puncturing a balloon, and stuff started streaming out of the danio, and it was sort of bleeding a little and lots of other sutff coming out, and I sort of gagged, and grabbed the net and took the fish over to the toilet, and then he swam a little, leaking, and flush flush flush flush flush!!!

So now, he's probably healed by the chlorine, and by now has made it to the river, where he's swimming happily with the other fish.