Either I’m going crazy, or something very strange is going on.
OK, a little background. I have a tiny fish tank, perhaps a gallon or just above in volume. In it, I keep a few guppies and such. Nothing exciting. Because the tank is so small and I only keep one fish of each color or kind, I’ve taken to naming them all individually: “Bumblebee”, “Zippy”, “Milkdud” etc, etc.
One day, I was cleaning the tank when I noticed that “Scooter”, my shrimp, has disappeared. I didn’t think too much of this. After all, shrimps are small and soft. Maybe the rest of the crew ate him. Maybe he got pitched out when I changed the water.
But a few months after the disappearance of Scooter, “Shiteater”, my bottom-feeder fish went missing too. This is much more mysterious because he’s more than an inch long, as big as most of the other fish there. I was mystified, but since his disappearance coincided with a spate of deaths in the tank, I reasoned that I must have flushed him and then forgot all about it somehow. It’s the only reasonable explanation.
Now, just yesterday, “Nipper” is gone. There’s been no recent deaths or water changes, although I did remove some waterweeds. He would have had to be one unfortunate fish to have gotten caught up in the weeds though, as I removed it with a pair of chopsticks.
And these are just the disappearances. Many, many more fish have just plain died under my inexpert care. Sigh.
