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Is patiently waiting… 😀
No, it’s not flouride. I read that the state can’t come up with 8.5 million dollars for some type of necessary equipment. Yes, they want to spend 8.5 million dollars so they can dump extra chemicals in one of the country’s best sources of drinking water. Only in Louisiana! I would have picked education or transportation, but I’m not a politician, so I guess my opinion doesn’t count. 😛 😆
I think I’m going to check for chloramines next.
And I love kribs! That is actually what I wanted for my tank. Every week I go to the pet store (I have to get feeder fish and crickets for work), and they had a tank of angels. Well, the last 4 baby angels had been there for weeks! It seemed no one had wanted them, and one day when I walked up to the tank, all four came straight to the front with their little noses against the glass. They suckered me right in. I couldn’t help, they were just too cute! I took all 4 home. 😳
All four have come through, as well as the pleco and bichir. 🙂
Laurie wrote:bayoudragon wrote:I still like the blue pearl curl. 😆 Btw, this is a fascinating idea, Laurie!
Well, what would you trade me for a pyo from WindstoneCollector? 😉
I think bodine has grabbed this one. 😆Wow! Congrats! 😀 Must be karma. 😉 hee
awww… I love baby fish news. That is wonderful!
I don’t think it’s the water. Our water is aquifer water, no chlorine, it’s fantastic water. The city uses 80 different points of collection and they mix them to keep things stable should one aquifer change suddenly. They have, however, been talking of adding flouride to the water. Don’t get me started on the flouride issue. LOL! I’ll check into it.
My male did pass in the middle of the night. This is what I lost…
http://www.trilbytropicals.com/turquoise_rainbow.jpgAnd thanks, all… it’s nice to know others love their fish, too! 🙂 😆
I am… because that’s the same thing I said! XD
Jen is losing plants, and for some reason, I’m now loosing fish. Regualr maintenance went really wrong today. I don’t know what happened. I simply cleaned the tank, and now all my fish are in respiratory distress. I don’t know what went wrong. I checked the temp. I even tested the pH, etc. As I was watching wondering what was wrong, one of my turquoise rainbowfish went from distress to failure. It’s never a good sign when fish start twitching and swimming in a spiral. Eventually, she finally lay still on the bottom of the tank. I was beyond heartbroken. They may be fish, but they are my babies. I buried her in the backyard. When I got back in, one by one, they started dying, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I couldn’t bare to see the rest of them suffer horribly the same way, so when each one took a turn for the worst, I put them in an ice bath. It got to be too much, scooping them out of the tank and euthanizing them. They were completely helpless, and I couldn’t save them. I finally broke down and cried. 😥 😥
I know they are just fish. Everything eventually passes on…. some die of old age, some just get eaten. But I somehow caused this, and I am not OK with that. I still don’t know what went wrong. The only thing I can think of is that I bathed my dogs the day before. There may have been some flea shampoo residue on the cement and contaminated the wet filter pads and baskets.
My angels seem to be OK, and my last rainbowfish (the dominant male) seems he may pull through. I can’t find the pleco, and if I lose my bichir, I will be absolutely crushed (I raised him from a teeny-tiny little thing).
Tonight was not fun. 😥 I need chocolate… then I’m off to bed. 🙁
I still like the blue pearl curl. 😆 Btw, this is a fascinating idea, Laurie!
LOL! mmmm, food! Actually, I think I will do the kirin next, and for some reason, the word “caramel” keeps popping in my head! 😆
And thanks, everyone, for the comments. 🙂
My favorite so far is the blue pearl curl.
I don’t have much to trade… I had to get rid of over half my possessions when I moved into my 2-BR condo. 🙁 One thing I could trade is a 2-inch long lapis gemstone dragonfish pendant. It’s too big for me to wear. I’m a major sucker for crystals and gemstones though, so he may just stay in my rock collection and not the jewelry box. He currently hangs off my art lamp. 😆
I also have a 6 inch tall, 4-sided agate obelisk that I would be willing to trade.
When you work summer camp, summer starts when that first child walks through the door! :shout: so tired…LOL
Thankies, everyone! 🙂
I went ahead and bought a muse, griffin, and a kirin to try. I should have waited until I received my paycheck, but you know how that goes. 😆 *addiction*
I don’t use CO2 either. I could never afford the dang setup (Windstones are more important…LOL). I just thought since you had Cabomba, you had CO2. I always just thought they needed it.
I use SeaChem’s Excel for carbon. Well, I used to anyway. I lost power for 7 days during Gustav, and some of my plants just couldn’t make it without light for that long. I lost all my background plants. 😥 The crypts, however, survived and are spreading like weeds… and I don’t give them anything anymore. Easy maintenance! 8)
But it’s just not as pretty without all the different textures. I really need to get things back the way they were. The fish really don’t seem to care though.
Jen, some plants are just as picky about their water as fish. I, too, recommend a test kit. For example, I am one of those people who have really weird water. The ph is HIGH; it comes out of the tap at around 9. BUT my general hardness is ZERO. I bought three different test kits because it I thought they were all defective! 😆 When I tested my alkalinity, it was fine. I was getting so confused… it took me forever to figure out. My alkalinity was fine and the hardness was low because the carbonates that were in my water wasn’t calcium carbonate, it’s something else. Everything began to make sense. I added plants and real wood to drop the pH (carbonic acid), and I add calcium for the plants. And since I didn’t want to work with buffers and additives either, I gave up on my hard-water loving African cichlids. I have Angels now. 😀
Here’s a link that has some common deficinecies… I have one with toxicity as well, but I can find it at the moment. 😳
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/aqua/art_plant_nutrient.htmHA! Umm, I think that’s my warped face in the upper right corner, too… *wonders if getting Oddball was a coincidence* 😈 😆
XD XD
I guess that means I have a one-of-a-kind! I shall name him “Oddball”. 😈
