Pet fish

All the while, my son likes looking at fishes in aquariums wherever a place happens to have a fish tank. So when a friend gave us her son's tank, the thought of getting him pet fishes came closer to fruition.

As promised by papa, we went to the aquarium on Saturday to get guppies for my son. Two pairs of male and female guppies.

This would be his first "real" pet. I say "real" because we had "trial runs" with some fishes caught from the stream in Tmn Tun park and from the lake in Desa Parkcity (mgt had allowed fishing a few Sundays ago).

All the previous fishes had eventually died because of various reasons- initially we didnt have an aquarium and were kept in large plastic containers which were probably not suitable with hindsight; while some died as they were eaten by larger fish; some died for unknown reasons etc.

I've no clue on rearing fishes. So this is papa's territory as he rared fishes as a boy. I'm learning and so is my son! As it turned out, one of the female fishes didn't look to good on Saturday night itself. Sadly, it died by Sunday morning.

Papa thought getting fishes for his birthday, would be a more meaningful present as he'd be able to go through the process of going to the aquarium to see for himself, choose for himself (actually papa chose), bring home and release into the aquarium (papa released with him looking on).

I hope that having pet fishes will teache him about responsibility (a song introduced by his music teacher), aquatic life, life cycle (birth and death).