little patient

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It's been a bit of a stressful first day back in Belfast. This morning I woke up to find one of my little fish, Pauli, really ill on the bottom of his tank. The other fish, Schrödinger, was fine. As I've said on here before, Pauli was ill when we got him from the pet shop and has never really recovered; he's a lot smaller than Schrödinger now, and very delicate.

I quickly got him out of the big tank and into a hospital tank, but he was obviously in a lot of distress, lying on the bottom completely lifeless and gasping. I went to the pet shop and got some medication and some aquarium salts in the hope that they would help him a bit. When I got home he wasn't moving at all, his gills had stopped moving. To be honest I was pretty convinced that this would be an RIP Pauli blip.

But a while after putting in the medicine he seemed to get a bit more life, he started trying to swim a bit and ate a couple of fish flakes, which he had just ignored earlier. He's still spending a lot of time on the bottom of the tank though, so I'm still not really very hopeful about his chances. I'll keep giving him the medication, I suppose that's all I can do :(