As I'm sure most of you know, Frankie had been sick for a long time. The last few weeks, his kidneys totally stopped working. He fought it-- most fish with bad kidneys don't make it a week --and he almost made it an entire year. But this recent bout was too much.

On Sunday, he couldn't right himself, and he had trouble breathing. He still showed some fight (he ran all over hell when I showed him the net), so I gave him some medicine and let him be. I didn't want to put him down if he didn't want to go.

He went sometime Monday night. In the typical "I hate you, human" attitude of all bettafish, his last act was to ram himself inside of his favorite airplane decoration so tightly that I had to upturn the whole thing to get him out.

I buried him outside in the little dirt patch, next to an aloe plant. It's pointy and I think it hates me. I think they'll get along.

Both me and the fish seem to be having it.



*sigh*

Why, yes, I do picspam my fish.

Why do you ask?

Frankie ate a worm!

I'm going to go buy him all the damn worms he can eat.

Things that have been going on, in no particular order:

It's been warm here. Very warm. And in deepest consideration for those who have been dealing with snow and freezing cold these last weeks, let me say...

( Nyah! )

School's going well enough. I'm repeating OCHEM, though this time with a teacher whose style I get along with better. Hopefully this quarter goes better for me than the last.

And, finally, Frankie has dropsy (read: kidney failure). I'm medicating him as best I can, but I'm not terribly hopeful. He did peek out from his hidey earlier to get some air on the surface, so at least he's still mobile, but he looks terribly sick. I feel pretty damn helpless.

I just put Frankie in the 20 gallon.

He spent the first few minutes utterly confused, the next bolting around the tank like a maniac, then decided he hated everything and sat on a leaf to pout.

Right now, he's trying to figure out what a current is.

I'll take some video when he's calmed down.

Something happened over the summer that I didn't get a chance to document or share--

( Frankie changed color! )

Part two of the picspam.

I'm mostly just excited because my parents got me a camera that can take good closeups. :3

( Here be fishie! )

My finished video for Companion Animal Science, starring Frankie.



I was supposed to appear in the video and explain my project, but as I was 1) lazy, and 2) not feeling well, I opted for the text, instead. I will supplement the sparse textboxes with stuff in-class.

I guess Frankie is comfortable with his new home.

I found this floating in his tank last night:



So, he's either happy or horny. I'm not sure which.

( Two pics of the little fishie. )