This post is written in honor of Pallie the Wonder Fish. Pallie was a Betta Fish picked out at Petco by Allison. She named him Pallie, we assume, because it rhymed with Allie. :-) Pallie was a Wonder Fish because the first time I changed his water, I didn't know the water needed to sit out for 24 hours before putting it in the bowl and that it was to be warm. Poor Pallie floated to the bottom and top of the bowl, on his side and upside down, and did not respond to prods by the net. I assumed he had died but after I did some googling I ended up putting in some warmer water. Miraculously he came back to life! This time however, Pallie used up his last life. He hadn't been eating well the past week or so and had been pretty inactive. Phil and I spent a couple of nights in Chicago while I was at a conference for work (the girls stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's) and when we came home he was at the bottom of the tank, lifeless. I broke the news to Allison first. It went like this. "Allison, I'm sorry but I have some really bad news. Pallie died." She looked at me, considering what she had just been told, and then said, "can we get a new pet, like a puppy?" She then broke the news to her sister. "Maddie, I have some bad news, Pallie died." Maddie's response? "Oh." Glad to know they are resilient!
RIP Pallie
DOB unknown-3/13/11
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