Many Many Things!

Well, many many things have happened today alone. Prepare yourselves, because most of it is negative. First things first, dear Augustus has passed away.

Here's the story:
So, I was at a camp all week. My family was taking care of my fish. When I got back, everything seemed ok, but I noticed Augustus wasn't around. My mom told me that she'd seen him last night when she fed them. After looking all around the tank, I began to worry. I knew he wasn't alive. If you remember how I found Poseidon dead, this should sound familiar. I saw a small whisp of what looked like fish bones with rotting skin. Accepting this as his dead body, I buried it. Gravestone and all. As returned to my tank, I was shocked to find another, fuller corpse. This one was defiantly Augustus. Feeling foolish, I went back (with my dear cousin) and dug up the false corpse (which was probably just some algae) and replaced it with the true one.

The false corpse

The false corpse

Augustus was a wonderful fish. He was friendly and accepting to everyone. His tail shimmered with every color imaginable and couldn't have been more beautiful. He will be missed.

Just to add to the pile of bad news, Socrates isn't moving. I'm not saying he's dead, he's just not moving. I keep telling myself this is another false alarm, and he's just sleeping, but I don't know. He's sucked into his shell and looks pale. I'm trusting that what I read about water snails when they die (that they stink) is true...

I also let Aphrodite out of confinement. I guess it's up to you whether that's good or bad. She was sure happy about it, swimming all over the place! I'm glad to see her happy, but also worried about my guppies.
 

Aphrodite enjoying all the new space

To make things worse, I'm leaving on a trip TOMORROW until August 7th, which means I won't be able to monitor or take care of my tank! I'm so worried about what I'll find when I return.

As far as good news, I cleaned my tank! YAY! It was so dirty and gross!

Lastly, tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of Tutankhamen's death. As one of the original fish, he will always have a place in my heart. We remember him tomorrow as a great fish who loved many.

Already?

Not long ago, I sat admiring my tank. I watched as my five guppies swam happily around  my tank-but something was wrong- Nero, one of our newest guppies, was not with them. Instead, he swam by himself in the corner. He looked sickly. Well, as you can probably guess... he died. We shall miss him.

RIP Nero

Just some new decorations...

I know this is off-subject, but I wanted to share this photo of Augustus with you! (Yes, yes, this is a filter...)

New Picture of Augustus & Searching Made Easier!

I finally got a good picture of Augustus! (thanks to my dear sister:) I had to put him in the separator to get him to hold still for the camera. Even this picture doesn't do justice to his beautiful tail! He is also slightly more purple/pink. Enjoy!

If you haven't noticed, this blog has also gained a new search bar. Now you can search the blog and internet quickly and easily! My latest project has been to go back through all my posts (Oh, the memories....) and add labels to them, which will make it 10x easier to search this blog. Search results should appear at the top of the page. I organized it so it will bring up any article that I mentioned your search word(s). I encourage you all to use it. (It's really fun, actually...)

Just to give you the memo...

Augustus and Hippocrates are doing great! Hippocrates went missing for a while and I got a little worried, but turns out he was just hiding. Augustus is fitting in well! :) I took some pictures with my phone...none of them turned out good, but the result is below. I know, I know, they're really blurry and not very exciting, but hey... At least now you have some idea as to what they look like. One of them is of Hippocrate's little tentacle/psuedopod thing.. he has one too! Weird... I'm still welcome to ideas.... (see post 'What the Heck?') I only wish I could take pictures of them that did justice to Augustus' beauty and Hippocrates' size. Augustus is a light pink with a goldish, whitish, silverish, greenish tail that shimmers in the light. And man, Hippocrates is outragously tiny!!!! Enjoy!

( I'm getting really excited about some upcoming decor changes... So stay tuned, folks! ;)

He has one too! (he's so small!!)

Augustus

Just to give you an idea about his size....

Augustus

Exciting news!!!

It is my pleasure to announce that I have gotten two new fish today! Their names are Augustus and Hippocrates. Augustus is a pinky-orangey guppy with white streaks on his tail, and Hippocrates is a itty-bitty baby yellow apple snail. The reason why I got another snail is because Socrates' shell is growing algae, and I saw at the fish store that the little snails were cleaning the bigger snail's shells. So I'm hoping they'll be dearest buddies. :)  (I even made their names rhyme!!) I'll add some pictures to this post soon!