My fish passed away

This morning, was awoken up by my mum as usual. This time, it was due to my fish. It passed away. It was being push around in the water by the air pump. It was fine yesterday. I even fed it. It also ate. Guess it died of old age as I had it for years. I was sad. Very sad. It had been with me for very long time.


It had escape death before. Maybe this sentence is too strong. Well, there was once during school holidays, kids around the neighbourhood would come and fish. They brought nets (be it toy nets or normal nets) and stole fishes that were kept outside around the corridor. So I believed that if it was caught, it won't be able to survive.


It also had went to many places. That time, when my mum bought the fish, it had friends. She kept in the house but soon she brought it outside to keep with the other guppies, etc. But due to the fact that kids came to steal fishes, we were worried that if we do not know that there aren't fishes around as the tank was full of algae, mosquitoes might breed.


When we try to catch all the fishes in the tank, we only found 2 fishes. Only 2 angle fishes left. So I decided to bring them to keep in my office table as my living room had no space for them. Bought a smaller fish tank and a pump and some pretty stones and set them on my table. Then brought the fishes from home in a round microwave container. Brought them there via my staff bus. Soon the smaller fish died as this bigger fish bully it.


It had stayed with me for like 2 years or so at work. It kept me accompanied there when I was lonely. Sometimes, I even just lie my head on the desk and looked at it swim. I would worried if there will be electric power interruption but luckily it never happened till the very last few days or weeks of my work before I left. I would worried if I found that there is no air coming out of the pump and try all means to fix it so that the fish would have air to breathe.


Anyway, years later, this year, I had to resign as I gotten into a University. Thus, I had to bring it back. This time, my dad drove us home. As we had thrown away all the big fish tanks containing Arowana, there were space for it to be kept in the living room. It had been home since August.


My mum and grandma also likes the fish very much. When people walk past, it would swim to the front as if to welcome them by moving around and moving it's tail (but of course in actual fact, it wanted food). It ate pretty loudly with 'pop' 'pop' sound as it tried to suck the food into its mouth. They always joked and said I had brought my fish to study in a University and it had been taught to 'dance' and welcome people and be so 'tan chi' (greedy). And it had graduated so it came home.

It had been with us for years thus, its a great lost for us. And to remember it, I took photos of it before I discarded it. Its body was still soft when I moved it around the container so I guessed it just passed away. I was hoping that it would breathe somehow but I know it was impossible.

It was pretty big so I am unsure if it can be flushed off. So I wanted to put in a container with some water for it before discarding it. I know it was silly of me. It was already dead. Why put water. But it was a fish so I wanted it to be in water too even if it was dead. As the container do not have a cap, So I poured it into a clear plastic bag before I discard it. I just hope that wherever it will be now, it will be happy.

Just to type this causing me to think back and now I am even more upset. I'll miss it!