Update on the Great Lute Fish Saga

Well, we lost Sally after a while. And then we replaced her with a fancier fish that Norah appropriately named Fancy.

Fancy was with us for a while, but Victor is a little temperamental. I'll explain.

Victor would sometimes bump Sally, kind of chase her around and bully her. After a while I found her looking very pale and swimming slowly. Eventually, we lost her. Then Fancy comes along and Victor did the same to her. He bumped her, and would chase her into the corner of the tank behind the little fake plants. When it was time to feed Victor and Fancy, Victor would get very competitive. He would chase Fancy off, and bump into her when she went after a flake of fish food. Fancy isolated herself behind the plants a lot, and eventually, she came to an end like her orange predecessors.

So now Victor's on his own. He's not allowed to have any other fish friends. We think that he kills them slowly, breaking their wills to live, and although they are just fish, it seems quite cruel to subject another fish to Victor's wrath.

He is calmer now, not swimming as much. So either he is depressed with no one to bully, or he's fading too. We'll keep you posted.