Kharla’s Diaries

A fish has gone missing!

Tonight my housemates and I discovered that one of our two Oscar fishes has gone missing. As there was no trace whatsoever of the loss, or of the crime, we theorized how the Oscar might have disappeared so quickly. One is that it jumped out of the aquarium to commit suicide. Another is that one of the bigger fishes swallowed it whole…quite grim, this one, but it does make sense. Examining the biggest of the fishes, it looked quite full, and it has a little wound at the side of its mouth where the fins might have stuck during the poor fish’s struggle. Eww.. talk about cannibalism amongst fishes.

Personally, I like looking at the suicide angle. I think that after last night’s band practice (where I warbled one or two songs and sang off key quite a number of times), the poor Oscar fish got fed up and, upon hearing that 2 more band sessions will be held at home, decided to end its life tonight rather than hear any more song from me. Poor, poor fish.

So there…we conducted our own little investigation on the case of the missing Oscar. I instructed Joni to dust the aquarium for prints, or fins as the case may be. Maybe the culprit left some distinguishing marks on the glass during the whole cannibalism episode, or maybe poor oscar left fin marks on the glass when it jumped.

Aldrin was put in charge of testing the water for traces of blood, just to pinpoint the scene of the crime (or the absence thereof). I am sure he will have a very busy schedule on the morrow, since there are 7 fishes left, and each has to be examined for a match, if there be any traces of  blood in the water. If no trace of blood is found then I think we can safely say that the fish did indeed commit suicide.

The rest relied solely on their deductive powers to deduce the culprit. They claim the ‘piranha’ looked guilty and could not look them in the eye; that when they put some fish food in the water, the said fish was not hungry, and only after a while did he start to eat, and only so that he would not look too obvious that he just had a full meal. Tsk, tsk. A fish is always  innocent until proven guilty, isn’t it?

So there, as of this writing, we are still finding oscar….

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