Little Shimmer is Dead

I noticed on Friday that Little Shimmer seemed to have some sort of white coating on some of his scales. I did an investigative search on the internet and determined he had some sort of fungus.

Today I stopped by the pet store and purchased some fungus medicine and some aquarium salts. I administered the medicine and about 2 hours later, Shimmer began swimming around his tank (something he had not done for 2 days).

I was hopeful that this medicine and the salt would do the trick. However, when I checked in on Shimmer around 2:00 a.m., he had died.

We purchased Shimmer on July 13, 2007 (it was a Friday). Today at the pet store I asked the clerk how long they have betta fish sitting on their selves before they are purchased. He said he couldn't really tell me, but he suspected some of them could have been there a year or more. So... I don't really know how old Shimmer was.

I just hope Shimmer didn't suffer. He was such a special little fish. He was always so excited to see me, his meal ticket. I'm really going to miss my Little Shim-Shim.