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Um...i'm de-sensitized to death of fishies. The side effects of working in an aquarium...dead fish daily. So I have no problem with killing fish, be it humane or not. I think she's on her last leg, so you might want to flush her....unless you want her to live out the rest of her days in a properly kept tank. 3nodding

Trust me, you wont like hearing this. She is 20 years old >< But honestly, i am partly to blame in this. I wont lie about that. Sister lives with me, and the fishie tank is on my kitchen counter.

"*sister* Your tank water level is going down"
"**Big huffy sigh** I know!"

a week later:
"*Sister* You still havent refilled the water!"
"**HUGE sigh of exasperation** I KNOW!"

Another week passes:
"*Sister* are you EVER going to fix the water"
"NO! Since i am moving soon, i think i am just going to let them die. Its too hard to move an entire 10 gallon tank, so if i want more fish, i am just going to kill these guys and go buy more"

>< I let her lead me on for over 3 weeks (seriously i thought the tank had sprung a leak with how fast the water was evaporating... but it didnt o_O), and i feel horrible about it. It was her fish, so she was _supposed_ to take care of them... but it was my tank she was using.

My only breather is the fact that when i took down the tank, i took great pleasure in informing her that i was keeping my tank when she moved out. If she wants her own fish/10 gallon, she can buy it herself!

stressed

I can set up a medical "tank" so to say, i just dont have the equipment to keep it aerated like they are used to. I only have 2 air pumps and odviously the guppies have the one, and my betta has the other. :/ Plus it would be the most ghetto fabulous medic tank in existance (100 CD spool cover! its what i used when i was desperate to clean the tank before i bought a replacement for them to live in! They swam in a CD spool cover for a day and a half).

Sadly she is still swimming funky, but she is eating, so i am wondering if it is the swimming bladder thing. I wonder if i should put her in the CD spool tank of ghettoness with a lower level of water, and add more over time... to see if it helps :S

all i know is she's got me worried, and sadly as i think i stated before, i am not all that knowledgeable on most fish. My limits are Betta and a bit on Plecos. XD

I fell in LOVE with plecos when my mom met my step dad... about 12ish years ago. For a good 5 years i watched his Mr. Pleco swim around happily in the tank, before he came down with a mysterious illness my dad couldnt fix. sad It was a very sad time, cause dad loved Mr. Pleco, and he tried everything he could to make him better sad That was one fish we actually burried (mainly because he was too big to flush XD)

My favorite kinds of plecos are Zebra and the more common brownish blacks with white spots you can buy everywhere (Mr. Pleco was a common razz )

Yikes, 20? Aah, that's scary. Don't let her have children. @_@

It's good that you kept your tank though, do everything you can to discourage that woman from getting more fish LOL. (Until she learns to care for them that is~)

It's a pitty that the lady guppy is dying though. Oh well, there comes that time for everyone! ):

I know I am a bit late but another thing that might have killed her was if she where the only female in the tank. overbreeding will kill off females fast. Also just for the record. Weird swimming fish don't absolutely mean they are dying I have a guppy with a weird fin that stops swimming and just kindda floats sometimes. But since shes been that way for over a year I know its normal for her.