Tony strikes again

Tony's tank had been looking a little murky and the snail (was this one George?) didn't seem to be moving much.  You may remember from this blog entry that we moved the snail to another tank, then eventually decided that maybe he (she?) wasn't dying, so we put him (her?) back into the big tank.  I kept finding the snail half buried in the rocks or half under the plants, but when poked, s/he would move a little, and seemed to move occasionally during the day when we weren't home, so, maybe he was hibernating.  Snails hibernate, right? Right? Well, maybe not...eventually the snail "disappeared", but the water wasn't too gross, so I decided that maybe the snail really as hibernating or something.

Then, the other day, I noticed that the snail shell was back on top of the rocks.  And it was empty.  Hmm.
 Well, that sucks. It is still a pretty shell, though, right? So we are working under the theory that Tony da Fish, either killed or waited until the snail died....and ate him.  Ew.  So that brings Tony's grand total to two dead fish and two dead snails.

Probably due to the dead snail's decaying body, the tank built up a lot of algae, so today we went to the pet store to see if we could get a sucker fish to get rid of some of the yuck.  The pet store clerk talked us into a tool to clean instead...she also thought it sounds like Tony is a hazard to others.

 But, despite being a hazard to other living creatures in his tank...he is sort of entertaining.  Although he is way too big to flush, so we'll have a fish graveyard when he dies.  Sigh. Don't die anytime soon, Tony da Fish.