Some days you just have to grin and take it...

We had a power failure of 16 hours recently. Several of my fish died right after the power went back on! I was shocked about this until I realized that they must have hyper-ventilated. They got over-drunk on oxygen, the poor things! They had been breathing so heavily, gulping air during those 16 hours (probably unconciously) that when the power and their "air" came back on, they sucked in so much oxygen that it killed them, poor li'l things.

I guess I'll have to get some surface breathers like the Betta from now on. My Banjo Catfish did survive, he's a surface breather and did so during the whole 16 hours. I love him so! He's so much fun to watch.