Tuesday, April 3, 2012

And then there was one....

We had an emergency today! Tyler discovered baby fish! The emergency is the bigger fish will eat the babies, unless you separate them immediately. So, we did just that. I took the bowl over to the sink, switched the fish into a smaller, cleaner bowl (which was quite hard, since Sina gave the fish net to the dog a few weeks ago!). Separated the babies into their own bowl. No, I did not loose any down the drain. I think I've only done that once :-)
Everyone was excited about the babies and the counter space was taken up by little bodies trying to poke their heads over the fishbowl to get a glimpse. After everyone had decided there were only 3 babies, they all started traveling back to the table to do their schoolwork. Kaili had a question about some school she was working on so I left SINA and went back to the table. No, Sina did not spill the fishbowl.
About 10 minutes later, however, Tyler yelled, "Mom! Come quick! Another emergency! I think some fish are dead! Well, no, that one was just sleeping!"...
After changing the fishes water several times, we've decided Sina either put Anti-bacterial Hand Sanitizer directly in the water, or put the stuff on her hands and then put her hand in the fish bowl.
We started out with 5 fish. Found 5 babies, and Tyler has just decided they are all dead (when I started writing, there was still one that looked like it was doing okay.)
Needless to say, fish cannot breath hand sanitizer...go figure.

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