That's quite unfortunate

My dad usually turns off my 55 gallon fish tank light for me every night before he goes to bed. Then I turn it on when I get home from school around 2:30. I turned it on today, and I noticed my gourami was swimming differently. He was more go-with-the-flow than usual, and he stayed closer to the surface. He looked fine on the one side that was facing me, so I put some flake food in and looked a bit closer. He turned around to eat, and I noticed what was wrong.

His left eye is missing. I called my dad to see if anything was wrong last night, and he said the fish was fine. I thought about it, and I noticed that we haven't had minnows for the bichir for a few days. So I think he's the culprit. I'll be watching the gourami pretty closely to make sure he doesn't get a disease or anything; and I'll have to keep the bichir full, so that means checking more than one store for feeders when I run out.

So after my dad got home, we went to PetCo and asked for 9 feeders. The girl fished out a few, looked at the net and said "I think this is more than nine, but that's okay right?" So we paid for 9, and I noticed once we were home that we got 15. I also got some more Kordon Fish Protector and a breeder net. I isolated the gourami in the net and dumped a bunch of junk on him since the barbs had been picking at his eye hole. I put 3 feeders in, which were all eaten within 7 minutes, and split the rest between two jars.

On a happier note, my Bolivians are coloring up some more. Recently, they've been very territorial to each other and the betta. The female claimed the left side of the tank, and the male got the right. Neither of them like the betta being in their territory, but she figured out that the big piece of wood wasn't taken by either of the rams, so she just hangs out around that.

The male ram, Miguel, is getting darker on his stripes and the edges of his pelvic fins. The first few rays on his dorsal fin and top and bottom rays of his caudal fin are starting to extend past the other rays; the blue on his anal fin still isn't showing up very well yet.

Laylah, on the other hand, has some really bright blue spots on her anal fin. The top ray of her tail is extending slightly, but the bottom ray and her dorsal rays are all staying the same. She also doesn't have black on the edges of her pelvic fins, and her body doesn't have the faint stripes like Miguel's does.

They're both also starting to recognize that me=food. So they come up to the front of the tank and swim up to the surface when I come by. I think it's cutee.