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    'RIP Fishy',
    'RIP Fishy, March 2007-March 2025, 18 years old

Long, emotional read ahead...

The last few days have been a struggle. You were happily eating one night and the next morning you were on the bottom of the tank having trouble. The other fish were poking at you either because they knew you were dying or because they wanted to play with their friend. I nudged you with a net and you swam sideways across part of the tank and hit the ground. Something is wrong.

I got you up into a floating plastic box with an air stone and stress coat medicine at the top of the aquarium. I kept you in the tank you\'ve been in for almost a year so you could still see your friends, even though you weren\'t moving much. I fed you at lunch but you couldn\'t get upright to eat. I gently picked you up and held you at the food to eat, which you did. After work I got peas at the store to try that based on recommendations for possible swim bladder; you were 18 and blind in one eye so it was probably just your time but I had to try.

I set up a small spare tank as a makeshift hospital with more space than the floating box. I was able to feed you once more in there and you swam a little, not oriented right, but clearly trying. The next day was more of the same, and you pooped, still unable to get upright or move your tail fins. Stress coat medicine every few hours. Less reaction each time, dwindling down to the flip of one fin and sometimes just moving your one good eye to acknowledge that you see me.

That night you wouldn\'t eat any more even when I held you right at the food. I walked over every half hour for almost four hours until I fell asleep in my chair waiting for the inevitable. This morning you were still breathing but completely flat on your side, unable to open your mouth, barely moving any fins. I have to let you go. The anesthesia is in the water and your breathing is slowing down. You\'re not struggling. Slow, methodical breaths, as the anesthesia is going in through your gills and taking effect. I did what I could, and unfortunately at the end all I could do was make you comfortable.

Eighteen years, four relationships, three houses, three aquariums, two jobs. You outlasted all your original tank mates. One other goldfish died a few years ago. One other a few years before that. You spent a couple years alone while I contemplated if I was done with fish after you pass. I struggled, and often failed, to keep up properly with your tank between work, kids, and a plethora of house things to do after we moved (that I\'m still working my way down the list). I scratched building a sewing table off my list to make space for a bigger tank since it had been years and I\'ve barely sewn anything anyway. A tank is a tank, it\'s the same effort for one fish or ten in it, you deserve some friends after being alone and neglected so much the last few years.

In one year you quickly moved from being alone in 29 gallons to new friends in 75 gallons then a few more friends in a 90 gallon, then getting neighbors in 75 gallon tanks that you would sometimes watch from the sides. Your golden dojo loach buddy will miss you the most, you bonded so well that you sat on the sand with your fins down just like it does. I\'m sorry you passed in that little 5 gallon tank. I had to separate you to medicate properly, prevent the others from stressing you, and prevent any potential transfer of illness to them. I put the remainder of the stress coat medicine in your hospital tank, then picked you up to give you one final swim for a few minutes before the anesthesia sends you on your final rest.

You were a cheap 25 cent feeder fish from Walmart jammed in a small tank with a hundred other fish to be sold as live food to other fish before I saved your life. When I lived alone, no relationship, no job, no interviews, draining my savings to survive fearing I\'d run out, then dad was diagnosed with terminal stage 4 cancer... on the days I lost hope and purpose, had considered ending my journey if dad didn\'t pull through, you and your tank mates (plus my cats) were my responsibility. When I didn\'t matter to myself, my pets still did. Without you I might not have my wife, my kids, or all the other blessings in my life.

Fishy, with love, thank you, and goodbye.',
    '2025-03-08',
    1
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