Geoffrey Stops Eating and the Gender Reveal

Four days ago, Authorities watched in awe as Geoffrey started moving rocks around, and Beetlejuice ignored her audacity to not play dead in a plant. Despite the invasion of his space, which in his mind is the entire tank, he did not chase her, although he did watch.

It was a relaxing evening, and the Authorities told our reporters that it was a relief to watch the neighborhood without feeling the need to break up fights.

That relief was short-lived; however, when they noticed that Geoffrey was not eating. Instead, she would swim in circles under the food as if to eat, only to descend to the depths of the tank to hide.

“We kept asking what was wrong and why aren’t you eating, but Geoffrey remained silent. This scared us because not only is he the most talkative of the fish, always greeting us whenever we walk by, but he’s the foodie of the tank. We inspected him, ur excuse me, her, and found no traces of any kind of sickness. Then the research began and we were coming up with nothing.”

Tonight, the mystery was solved. Obviously starving, Geoffrey came up to the food, spit out a mouthful of eggs, took two bites, and then quickly shoved her eggs back into her mouth. Everyone heard the Authorities gasp as they finally realized that Geoffrey is female. 

“We had our suspicions,” they told us, “but we were unsure. Naturally, we feel embarrassed.” 

Those of us at The Bubbly Review don’t quite believe that the Authorities had suspicions since they read articles that mentioned that the Giraffe Cichlid is a mouth breeder. It’s hard to eat when eggs are in your mouth.

We asked if they would now call her by her real name, Ginger, and they said no. We asked Madame Geoffrey if that bothered her and she said, “Not at all. They like the name and I like the name. Besides only Sassy ever called me Ginger and I’d like to keep that special.”

—The Bubbly Review