I bought Ko last year (06 January 05), he is one of the first fish that I had. At that time he lived in a bowl with another friend (Dot) who is now dead (17 December 05). In the picture below, ko is the orange one.


Ko has been through many "disasters" but the small thing is still alive!! He has always been happy in his little bowl, on the 13th December 05 I bought an aquarium it's when the nightmare started. I didn't know anything about how to prepare the aquarium. I just left the water without adding any solution to stabilize the water, that's why Dot died.

When I added both fishes in the aquarium, they were acting weird, they stayed at the bottom without moving much, I thought it was because the aquarium was new to them & they were a bit stressed. I left them this way believing that after some hours they will get used to their new house.

But when we (me & my sisters) came after 1-2 hours we saw Dot was floating upside down :..( he was already DEAD.... I was certain that Ko will die too, I removed him immediately from the aquarium and put him back in the small bowl, he was in a comatose state.

The next day Ko was fine, FORTUNATELY....