Showing posts with label Cow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cow. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Swim Bladder Disease

Just a few days ago we had a scare with Truck, one of our beloved goldfish.  I was nursing Chloe and about to put her in the bassinet, when I noticed that Truck was swimming kinda sideways and acting really skiddish.  By the time I text Michael and he came in the nursery to look at him, Truck was still completely alive, but floating upside down.  I wasn't sure what was going on, but Michael knew right away that something was wrong with his swim bladder.  So naturally, we googled it to find out exactly what was wrong with Truck.  The first info Michael found was that Truck wasn't going to make it.... so then the discussion of what do we do and how do we tell AJ that he only has two fish now began.  Michael was set on flushing him and trying to hide it from AJ.  I wasn't convinced that he wasn't going to make it so I googled it a little bit more and realized he had swim bladder disease, which is completely curable and Truck would be just fine with a change of water and some frozen peas.  Phew - the dreaded conversation with AJ would not have to happen - huge relief right there!

Fast forward to today and Truck is completely fine!  But through this whole ordeal, I realized I don't have any recent pictures of our fishies!  So without further ado... here are Cow, Truck and No-Name!


From Left to right... Cow, Truck and No-Name


Close-up of Cow and No-Name
 
Truck and Cow with No-Name hiding in the background


This picture shows a little bit of the size difference and how HUGE Cow is.  He is a tank!

Hi Cow.

Going after the same piece of food!

No-Name is so small compared to Cow and Truck.  Poor thing!
 
Truck.

No-Name and his reflection.


I love how perfect Cow's fins are.   

Our three sea creatures!  We love them so!

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Pet Store and the Goldfish

Last week, Daddy had Grandpa bring down his three gallon fish tank in hopes that we would get AJ a pet fish in the near future.  Well, that near future was today!  When we dropped of AJ at Babcia and Dziadzi's last night, we promised him that we would take him to the pet store in the morning where he could pick out his own beta fish.  Needless to say, he was super excited!  So we picked him up and off to Petco in Lisbon we went. 

First we saw the ferrets, but they were too smelly for Mommy to stand next to them and
 take a picture...So it was off to see the hamsters!

Saying bye as he turned around and looked at the....

Guinea pigs!

He thought they were pretty cool! 

And now... introducing his two new fish (we caved and let AJ pick two goldfish instead of one beta fish!) who he named himself.....

Cow and Truck!!  
(I think Cow is hiding in the SpongeBob Pineapple already!)