My Poor Donatello....
Feb. 16th, 2011 10:37 am![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icelightningI'm sad to say that Donatello didn't make it.
The fin rot on his anal fin was mostly gone, but during a water change, I broke his tank. I stuck him in a slightly over one gallon hospital tank, and he seemed to not quite enjoy it, but was doing otherwise fine. Two days later, I finally had time to get him a new tank, and brought it home. But it was too late...
That same day, something really upset him and he shredded his tail. Except shredded doesn't quite describe it--it was literally the third of the length it was previously, with much of that length dead, and shredded bits of fin were everywhere. The bits of fin caused a bacterial bloom that was too much for his always been weak immune system, and by the time I got home....
He had full blown dropsy, pineconing, gasping for breath, the works, and it was obvious he'd be dead by morning. After finally finding the clove oil at GNC, I was able to put him asleep. He fought the clove oil for a moment, but settled when I placed his stuffed fox plush next to him. Don was still laying there calmly when I finally dosed him with vodka.
Thank you everyone for the help (especially to![[livejournal.com profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kittencuffs for answering my frantic PMs). The treatments I was told to give him really helped improve his last few weeks of life. It really sucks that he had to go that way, but at least he didn't suffer for that long.
The fin rot on his anal fin was mostly gone, but during a water change, I broke his tank. I stuck him in a slightly over one gallon hospital tank, and he seemed to not quite enjoy it, but was doing otherwise fine. Two days later, I finally had time to get him a new tank, and brought it home. But it was too late...
That same day, something really upset him and he shredded his tail. Except shredded doesn't quite describe it--it was literally the third of the length it was previously, with much of that length dead, and shredded bits of fin were everywhere. The bits of fin caused a bacterial bloom that was too much for his always been weak immune system, and by the time I got home....
He had full blown dropsy, pineconing, gasping for breath, the works, and it was obvious he'd be dead by morning. After finally finding the clove oil at GNC, I was able to put him asleep. He fought the clove oil for a moment, but settled when I placed his stuffed fox plush next to him. Don was still laying there calmly when I finally dosed him with vodka.
Thank you everyone for the help (especially to
kittencuffs for answering my frantic PMs). The treatments I was told to give him really helped improve his last few weeks of life. It really sucks that he had to go that way, but at least he didn't suffer for that long.
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Date: 2011-02-17 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-17 03:08 am (UTC)Don was a good fish. Always sickly, though. Got him after he was a party favor, and he never quite recovered from it.
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Date: 2011-02-17 04:15 am (UTC)I'm sorry that you lost both of them. I'm sure you cared about Donatello as much as you cared about Magus, and I know how you loved him!
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Date: 2011-02-17 04:36 am (UTC)Thank you--I did. Although we really started to bond only in the last couple of months.
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Date: 2011-02-17 04:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-17 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-17 07:17 pm (UTC)Do you have Firefox? You could get that add-on that lets you be signed in to multiple accounts at once. It's for all the RPers on LJ, of which there are apparently a bamillion.
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Date: 2011-02-17 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-17 07:23 pm (UTC)I should have assumed you knew about LJlogin, though, since you are the Tech Goddess.
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Date: 2011-02-17 07:29 pm (UTC)And you know what they say about assuming... But I love it very much.
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Date: 2011-02-17 07:39 pm (UTC)Oh well, I'm sure you deserved it.
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Date: 2011-02-17 07:46 pm (UTC)I deserve it, huh?
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Date: 2011-02-17 07:51 pm (UTC)I assume so. :P
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Date: 2011-02-17 07:53 pm (UTC):| Thanks. Really.
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Date: 2011-02-17 06:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-17 05:36 pm (UTC)Thank you. He was a good fish.
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Date: 2011-02-17 05:29 pm (UTC)I've always been impressed at the level of care you've given your fish. I'm sure he led a very happy fishy life :3
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Date: 2011-02-17 05:37 pm (UTC)I try to give them the best care I can. Thank you--I didn't have him as long as Magus, but he seemed fairly happy.
Also I posted this to my journal instead of a community, but oh well. I really should start getting back into updating.