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Holy crap!
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:40 am
by Martin Thoene
Just did water-changes yesterday and I'm walking past the Clown tank today.
PHEW! It smells like a fishmongers! So I'm thinking dead fish.....so I look around and find a highly bloated and fuzzy-wuzzy Tiger barb floating on the surface.
Water-change time again.........the Clowns are puffing a bit hard....Bang goes a leisurely Labour Day morning.
Martin.
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:45 am
by shari2
Water changing due to dead fish...SO not relaxing!
Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:57 am
by Martin Thoene
All done @ 11:30
I tested the water
......it was a big fat zero on Ammonia and Nitrite which is good. I did a 50% change and threw a big bag of Carbon into the Aquaclear 500 to get rid of the pong
The Clowns are breathing slower now
1:15 EDIT:
A-mazing! Now the water is completely odourless
Praise be to water-changes and Activated Carbon!
Martin.
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:13 am
by Graeme Robson
Ouch!!
Nothing worse than seeing loaches breathing rapidly. Good to see all is well again.
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:47 pm
by angelfish83
I stopped caring a REEEEEEEALLY long time ago.. I think it was during my stint working @ Menagerie... (I believe I sold you some stuff Martin)...
Sh*t happens. That's the best motto for a fish keeper.
Recently I lost 30 Amano shrimp (thats a lot of money... not to mention the other reasons it sucks) because I have rediculously soft water !on purpose! for my angels...
"Oh look more shrimp died"
works much better for my emotional state than
"Oh my god what am I going to do"
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:51 pm
by TammyLiz
Oh, now that's sad. Freak out, no, but care? Yes. And do whatever you can within reason. They are, after all, your pets, and rely on you. Sorry to hear about your amanos, though.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:51 am
by angelfish83
TammyLiz wrote:Oh, now that's sad. Freak out, no, but care? Yes. And do whatever you can within reason. They are, after all, your pets, and rely on you. Sorry to hear about your amanos, though.
Oh I absolutely do everything within reason. I can't remember how many times I've ruined plans because the fish need "X"...
I just don't let it affect my state of mind in any way. If it happens it happens, and I do whatever I can to help.
I take the best care I can of my fish...
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:52 am
by angelfish83
angelfish83 wrote:TammyLiz wrote:Oh, now that's sad. Freak out, no, but care? Yes. And do whatever you can within reason. They are, after all, your pets, and rely on you. Sorry to hear about your amanos, though.
Oh I absolutely do everything within reason. I can't remember how many times I've ruined plans because the fish need "X"...
I just don't let it affect my state of mind in any way. If it happens it happens, and I do whatever I can to help.
I take the best care I can of my fish...
Congratulations by the way- what is a waxy vernix???? Sounds like something out of Alien III
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:54 am
by shari2
Nah. Just a coating (like a heavy waxy cream) on the skin. Protects and coats the very thin skin. Most of it's gone by birth in full term babies.
...only 145 days to go...Merry Christmas!
fwiw, no, you shouldn't let losses/problems with your fish ruin you, but if you are passionate about your hobby it is not always possible to be completely detached, at least for me. The angst comes in and breeds further research, etc and makes me a better (hopefully) fishkeeper in the end.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:06 am
by newshound
angelfish83 wrote:I stopped caring a REEEEEEEALLY long time ago.. I think it was during my stint working @ Menagerie...
Sh*t happens.
ha that is funny.
I think I met you the one time I was at Harolds store.
teenage kid who knew it all "I moved a bunch of fish from Montreal..."