Swimmer, No Longer Swimming

As a house warming gift, we got a fish tank with a betta fish. David named him Swimmer. He was looking pretty sluggish during the week and yesterday I found him on his side, dead. I didn't want to tell David so I went to Wal Mart and bought another one. Unfortunately, they didn't have the same color betta but one close to it. When David came home from pre-school he went to check on his fish and he said, "Mom, Swimmer looks red today." I replied, "Oh." and left it at that. He went on the day just happy that "Swimmer" was perky again.

David could have understood the death talk but I didn't want to give it to him so soon after only knowing Swimmer for 5 days so instead I replaced Swimmer and got a couple more fish (some sort of tetras), which David named one Optimus and the other Prime. Actually fitting since they had a red-blue color in them ... hence Optimus Prime of the Transformers. All three fish are guaranteed for 90 days so hopefully they last at least that long. I bought other supplies and asked tons of questions to make sure I know how to take care of them well.

Swimmer is darker than this and this is about the color of Swimmer II

Double this picture and you'll have Optimus and Prime