The fish looked healthy when we were there, so we waited a few days, and went back and got 2.

We couldn’t find someone from the fish department to help us, and the person we found wouldn’t let us pick out the fish, so we ended up with one that died the night we got it home.

The other fish seems to be doing well in our 55 gallon tank, but I have seen a little blackness on his belly.

I really hope this guy makes it.

Of course he’s not going too.

While I was writing this post we had company – after they left I went to feed the fish, and the puffer is dead.

Fish can be so depressing sometimes.

My adult australian desert gobies died.

This was somewhat expected, since we’ve had them since the end of January, and they were about full grown then.

These fish are considered to be annuals by most of the people I know that have them, because they only live for twelve to eighteen months.

You’d think that knowing they would die fast would make it easier, but it didn’t.

It still makes me sad to think about it.

In addition to that our Green Spotted Puffers died.

When we got them they seemed to be plump and fat, and healthy.

And they seemed to be the same right up to the end.

Spot and Stripe died about a week apart – the water conditions and everything were fine, and they were swimming around happily, and eagerly eating in the morning, and in the afternoon they were dead.

I don’t know what happened.

I did read about Green Spotted Puffer disease, where the puffers got a black spot on them, then stopped eating and died within 36 hours, but we didn’t notice a black spot on them, and they were both eating the day they died.

Like most cases in fish deaths we’ll probably never know what happened with the puffers.

Green spotted puffers aren’t successfully bred in captivity, so most of them were wild caught.

That probably had something to do with it.

Who knows.

I do know that we recently saw some Green Spotted Puffers that looked happy and healthy swimming around at a local store, where they’d been happy and healthy for two weeks.

It was fun to watch them for a few minutes but I’m not ready for another one anytime soon.

I told my husband that I’m over my love affair with fish since my favorite fish died within a couple of weeks of each other.

Then I told him I’m holding out for seahorses.

Anybody got a 35 gallon column tank for sale?