Holy crap!

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:40 am

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.

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:45 am

Water changing due to dead fish...SO not relaxing!

Martin Thoene · Post by **Martin Thoene** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:57 am

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.

Graeme Robson · Post by **Graeme Robson** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 4:13 am

Ouch!!

Nothing worse than seeing loaches breathing rapidly. Good to see all is well again.

angelfish83 · Post by **angelfish83** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:47 pm

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"

TammyLiz · Post by **TammyLiz** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:51 pm

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.

angelfish83 · Post by **angelfish83** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:51 am

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...

angelfish83 · Post by **angelfish83** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:52 am

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

shari2 · Post by **shari2** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:54 am

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.

newshound · Post by **newshound** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:06 am

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..."

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