• I attended a funeral at Mokpo this week, to offer my condolences to a friend, whose mother has demised.
• Coincidentally, I had to pull out fishes' carcasses from my tank the other day.

Death always makes us sad.

Something requires, in most cases, enough time to make it what we expect to see or satisfy oneself with it.

One shot taken today brought above example home to me showing astonishing difference in growth of her (fish) fins against old shot taken from the same object. I often would not stand long time to get a certain result from my actions or measures. When it comes to fish care, I used to administer medication and first aid with hot temper by applying much amount dosage and/or doing it by short intervals repeatedly. The outcome was largely disastrous. All dead within short time :(

Angel fish shown above had suffered so called fungus disease upon the first dive into my water tank. Then, I strictly obeyed instructions from pet shop; Sodium shower, medication to the point, temperature control, relatively higher aeration, and so on. While repeating the cycle, I did not measure the progress whether there is improvement in her health intentionally. I just awaited a result calming myself down. After a couple of months, the result turned out to be a success as you can enjoy beautiful fins. (You can peek what the fins looked like before from here)

Patience can make everything come true. Something on my both hands now, hopefully, may come true by the same lesson learned with my fish. :)

This is an obituary of my beloved fishes to whoever loved them at personal visit to my home and from photo shots in flickr archive. Now, I have ONLY THREE black tetras. They sheltered in a small water tank after an emergency rescue from where they lived long ago. Others passed away. :(

Recently, I recognized that several fishes went inviable in their motion to catch preys and feeds. Dripping several shots of antibacterial liquid was everything that I had done because it had worked well on the same symptom before. One morning after a couple of days, corpses were floating beneath water surface. I came up with the fact that I had forgotten to wash the tank and fill fresh water so long time.

It was absolutely my fault not to clean the tank while most of the deceased had lived longer than their known longevity of three years. On the other hand, there is no doubt that the survived also pass away within one year or so regardless of my sincere care. However, the only and very thing that I have to do is still to deliver utmost affection for them.

The half of fishes in the tank passed away since the start of keeping. The other half of fishes survived in honor but tamed like Pavlov's dog. Motion around the water surface attracts fishes even when there is no feed on it. As shown in the video, in response to finger move, fishes intensively jump up to water surface to catch pseudo-prey. :)

Intense sunshine smashes ecosystem in water tank. Threes fishes passed away due to high temperature. Thermometer reads 31 Celsius. Six fans on the head of tank cool down water temperature by 4-5 degrees.

Water tank at home had two new joiners yesterday, a couple of white Corydoras(es??), from E-mart. They will stay there with elder inhabitants. White colored one is the variety of original from Brazil. However, they must be bred somewhere in Korea, because the per-fish price is only 1,000 won. Anyway, their presense started to provide the whole water tank with bright hue, whereas striped color mixture overwhelmed it before. Longevity I wish! So many baby fishes had passed away since the start of water tank keeping, while suvivors became doubled in size.