Both of them, in fact!
It's not that I hated them or anything, but truth be told, I wasn't thrilled about having them either.
My kids got them as a reward for their good behavior, when they were staying with my family for a few days while we were in Bangkok. That was in October, the poor things hardly survived four months at our place.
I ignored cleaning their bowl for a few days and when I finally had time yesterday and decided to do it, the water was full of stuff and the shells and pebbles I have in that bowl were sort of slippery, I felt bad about ignoring them this week so I decided to really clean the bowl and shells:
I put some clorox in there. Yes yes, I know!
Well, it's not like the fish were in the tank when I poured the clorox, and I did rinse them for at least ten minutes under running water, but it was pretty stupid nonetheless. We came back in the evening to find them on the surface grasping their last breaths.
Zaido insisted that his fish was OK while Raya's was Kharbaneh!
So I did not do anything about them till this morning when they were both actually gone. I woke up before the kids and made sure I 'd flush the toilet more than once so none of them would surface up when the kids need to go!!
That would have been ugly!
I tried convincing myself that fish have a small life expectancy anyways, but that's just not right. I just checked and they could live up to 15 years..
How bad do I feel now? Very!
I was able to distract the kids from asking about details of their loss in the morning, but God knows how it will go after they come back from school.
It's not that I hated them or anything, but truth be told, I wasn't thrilled about having them either.
My kids got them as a reward for their good behavior, when they were staying with my family for a few days while we were in Bangkok. That was in October, the poor things hardly survived four months at our place.
I ignored cleaning their bowl for a few days and when I finally had time yesterday and decided to do it, the water was full of stuff and the shells and pebbles I have in that bowl were sort of slippery, I felt bad about ignoring them this week so I decided to really clean the bowl and shells:
I put some clorox in there. Yes yes, I know!
Well, it's not like the fish were in the tank when I poured the clorox, and I did rinse them for at least ten minutes under running water, but it was pretty stupid nonetheless. We came back in the evening to find them on the surface grasping their last breaths.
Zaido insisted that his fish was OK while Raya's was Kharbaneh!
So I did not do anything about them till this morning when they were both actually gone. I woke up before the kids and made sure I 'd flush the toilet more than once so none of them would surface up when the kids need to go!!
That would have been ugly!
I tried convincing myself that fish have a small life expectancy anyways, but that's just not right. I just checked and they could live up to 15 years..
How bad do I feel now? Very!
I was able to distract the kids from asking about details of their loss in the morning, but God knows how it will go after they come back from school.
February 2007
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