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This is the story of super oscar fish D-Style Jr. Aptly named after an ex coworker David, who went by D-Style back when he was a DJ in a past life.



To put thinks frankly D-style Jr is a super fish. He has survived not 1 but 2 near death experiences. He was originally put in a tank with one other Oscar, Twinkletoes, but he quickly out ate him during feeding times and grew to be twice his size, about the size of a adult palm, within 3 months.



The first near death experience started when the office staff left for the weekend and everyone forgot to feed poor Twinkletoes and D-Style Jr. So, D-Style Jr being the super fish that he was decided to become resourceful and found food elsewhere. Unfortunatly it was in the form of a Plekko fish. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Plekko it is the sucker fish that people get to suck all the algae off the tanks. The unfortunate part of this event is that the Plekko fish has several sets of large barbs on the front of it to prevent predators from eating it, like D-Style Jr.



So, on Monday morning my coworkers and I showed up for work and went to the fish tank to see if there had been any new changes. Imagine our surprise when we found our beloved D-Style Jr, laying at the bottom of the tank with half of a plekko fish sticking out of his mouth. D-Style Jr's poor gills had been stretched open so wide that they were starting to rip away from his face and his mouth had been open so long that it was ripping apart at the corners.



His prognosis did not look good. His eyes were starting to glaze over and he had stopped flapping his fins. When the afternoon started to roll around so did D-Style Jr. He was losing the ability to hold him self up and was starting to fall over onto his side.



It was at this point that I decided to take action. Now mind you I know absolutly nothing about fish .



to be continued.....