Marmite, evil
There were all together 22 fishes in W’s aquarium - 6 zebra danios, 6 neon tetras and 10 platies. Actually a few too many. We used to only need to change the water once every 2 weeks.
I fed the fishes today, as I normally do everyday. However, something different happened. On first sight, I thought I saw a piece of fish waste sank and slipped underneath the fake mountain. Although I was sure it didn’t really look like fish waste, I didn’t pay further attention, as I couldn’t see what slipped into that opening, and I was busy observing the playful danios searching for any left over fish flakes on top of the gravel.
If it wasn’t the marmite jar, I suppose I wouldn’t have the headache I’m having now. It all started a month ago when my colleague’s 2-year-old son decided to be on a mission to "free" the fishes and hurled a marmite jar at his aquarium. It broke a big hole at the lower corner of the aquarium and all the fishes were flushed down onto the carpet, except one algae eater fish, which thought it was a good plan to stay stick-on to the glass.
Two days later on a Monday morning, my colleague offered me the fishes, around 7 apparently still healthy platies according him, or else these tropical fishes won’t survive in the bowl in his home for too long. Seeing that these poor fishes would most likely not survive if they were not put in a proper aquarium, I took the challenge to rescue them. Actually 11 of them, which I found out only when my colleague arrived at my doorstep, to my horror.
As if the aquarium is not crowded enough, now the platies are getting comfortable and start giving birth to baby platies! Yes, that wasn’t a piece of fish waste. Like D, my colleague’s son, who blamed the marmite jar for breaking his aquarium and putting his lounge in a mess, W, I am going to start blaming the evil marmite jar as well.
