My Figure-8 puffer fish, Ocho, died today. Apparently of dropsy, a bacterial infection of the gut. I'm feeling some degree of guilt over this, because last night I noticed his stomach looked a bit distended and immediately thought dropsy, but it was only a little bit and I couldn't be sure that he hadn't just eaten a bunch of freeze dried krill (which I'd fed him a little bit before). Ultimately I decided to wait and see how he looked today. Bad call. If I'd gone out and picked up some fishy antibiotics then, Ocho'd still be with us.
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