A sad day yesterday

[fosteder]

Well I unfortunately had to euthanize a fish last night. He was a Julii cat and one of the last of my fish that I was really attached to.

I DO have an excuse for being attached to a fish. My sister gave him to me when I was in High School. I'm not sure about the year but I was between 16 and 18. I'm 27 now. That's right, my Julii Cat was somewhere around 10 years old! I had been calling him Keith Richards, due to the old rockers ability at hanging on to life no matter what he put his body through. So hurray for Keith...he was a great fish!

Feel free to add any stories of your own....

 

[chubasco]

Re: A sad day yesterday

Back in '81, a friend had brought several pairs of velifera mollies from Guatemala to Portland OR and gave me 2 pairs to raise. Beautiful fish, the 2
males had ginormous dorsals and I placed a pair each in 2 old 40gallon Metaframe tanks that had dual lighting: (2) 25w incandescent grolite, and a 30w fluorescent "for aquariums" back then. Anyhoo, the combination lighting rilly lit up the electric blue dots of their fins and body. In '82 I was going thru
divorce #1 of 3 and joined the navy. I gave all my stuff and fish to 2 friends
before I left for San Diego. Sure miss those fish....thanks for making me feel
melancholy and sad

Bill

ps never got quite the impressive finnage of the fathers in the males I
raised, even when I raised the salinity to full brackish.

 

[Ian H]

Re: A sad day yesterday

It's almost inevitable that you will have an attachment to some of your fish, catfish in particular as they are long lived. I've a Synodontis Eupteris cat that is heading into it's 17th year, recently it pigged out on cucumber and was quite ill for a few days, I was very concerned and cared for it like one of my family.

Ian

 

[GreenStuff]

Re: A sad day yesterday

Sorry to hear about Keith. I'm sure you gave him a good life.

About 10 years ago when I first got into fish keeping, I (stupidly) bought an angel fish at Walmart. I felt sorry for it because it had no fins. ....and I mean NO fins. It was just a dime waddling in a tank full of mates. I called him Wally.

That's when I went online and started finding more information about fish keeping. Wally lived for 5 years and was then given to a fellow, who for all I know, may still have him. His fins never did grow back entirely. Once he was fully grown he looked like a siver dollar. Turned out to be a vey fast swimmer and mean ol' b*gger too.