A tribute to the Big White

The Big white was our white Gold fish with a red hat. It passed away a couple of weeks ago.

I still remember the day when we went to PetsMart to get you. You were living in a school with tens of others like you and some how we just couldn't take our eyes off you and at the spur of the moment decided to get you. You were so swift that the mart guy commented "that's way too fast for a gold fish". You had some abnormality on your skin and we were worried you may fight with other fish in the tank but we were wrong you were very gentle and very playful. You wanted to boss around the big red and I would say you succeeded most of the times.

It was amazing to see you feed, you smelled food quicker than rest of the fish in the tank and you always made noises when it was time to get fed. After the food at the top was over, you went to the bottom in search of food and it almost looked like you threw up gravel instead of food searching.

You were the one who had some unusual but very cute behavior, you took the window in the broken pot and made it your resting place. I remember after every water change the window opening used to shift a bit and you used to struggle to fit in and I used to come and adjust the pot by a few mm so that you could fit yourself in. We used to wonder what would you do when you grew bigger and you sure out grew the hole and when you no longer fitted in you moved on to the mouth of the pot.

I remember you would start dancing at the very sign of either of us, specially if it were feeding time.

Rarely there was anybody who didn't comment on your red hat, which almost looked like a crown.

You were the crown jewel of our tank and alas you are no longer there but your memory shall remain. You were a very healthy and great fish.

You stayed with us for close to 2 years and you passed away without any suffering, I still can't figure out what went wrong. All I can console my self is your journey on this planet was over. May your soul rest in peace.