The Circle of Life

It was an interesting weekend in the the Mosier house...mainly in Madison's fish tank. It started out with some sad news for Madison. Her first fish, Princess Emma, died on Friday, February 15th and had her proper fish funeral by being flushed away (which Madison did not watch). She had a moment or two of sadness, then was full of questions as to why she died, if she was in Heaven, how we get to Heaven, and so on. Poor Madison!! Her sadness though was quickly turned to happiness when we told her that she could go pick out a new fish on Saurday.

While we were at the pet store Madison decided that she wanted a few little fish instead of one big one, so we asked the sales person to recommend a good mix of fish that would be appropriate for her tank size. She ended up with three differnent "Molly" fish. One white one that she named Lena, a black one that she named Blacky and a red one that she named Molly. Before we put the new fish into the tank, we noticed that one of the fish had a school of baby fish inside the bag. We called the pet store to ask what to do because the fish were eating the babies. They said that the babies would probably not survive, that it was a natural for the other fish to eat them and putting the babies in the tank would help the tank. So we did that, and Madison had to watch as the babies did not survive. She was ok with this and all was well on Sunday. Monday morning comes around and Molly did not look too good. She was nose down hiding in the plastic tree. I told Brin to take a look, and he said that Blacky had been raming into it, and it looked like he finally killed her. So we had another fish funeral and had to tell Madison that another fish did not make it and that it was Blacky that did it. Before Blacky could kill the other fish we decided to take it out and bring it back to the pet store today. Madison was mad at her new "mean fishy" and gladly took him back. (You can see her saying "Bad Fish" to Blacky in the picture)

Apparently the first sales person did not advise us well and our tank was too small for all three fish of that size, so Blacky was claiming his space. He went back to the store anyway and we got our money back, Madison kept the one white fish, Lena, and got a tiny cat fish that stays and sucks on the tank to clean it. We were assured that they would be fine together. I guess we will see!! Nothing like experiencing life and death through a child's fish tank!