And whats so bad about that list? Its alittle conservative granted but not so bad. After all petsmart seems to think a goldfish in a half gallon bowl is ok.
Im kidding of course.
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And whats so bad about that list? Its alittle conservative granted but not so bad. After all petsmart seems to think a goldfish in a half gallon bowl is ok.
Im kidding of course.
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Got to earn their keep I say! Lawn mowing, pool cleaning - hourly rates available
Actually then maybe I could break even on expenses...ms705jk
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My big mistake was dosing my nano reef tank with furan-2 to get rid of zoa poxs.I saw on the internet that is was ok and safe. Wrong wrong wrong!! It only cost $8 and 3 days to kill $300 and 8 months of my time. Oh the learning curve
ms705jk
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It killed everything
ms705jk
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Its definitely not something you want in your whole system. Since I killed everything in the tank I did a little more research on furan-2 and its supposed to be used as a dip. No longer than 5 minutes
Will have to read up - I've just chucked it in the drawer assuming I won't need it until next summer. Must check it out properly.
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Put African cichlid with my fantail goldfish!!
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Well, books from the 1800's would be pretty dated. It must be fun to learn about how people kept fish before electricity was widely available.
I'd love to get a collection of aquarium books - new and old. This Xmas my hints won't be so subtle. I have some old work text books and it is amazing what we take for granted with computers now.
fish wrangler
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Using old milk jugs for putting water back into tank. Didn't rinse them out good enough and had sour milk in tank. Killed everything but rainbow shark and common pleco.
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fish wrangler
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Yea. Lost 3 tiger barbs and 2 other rainbows
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guppygourami
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there for my scraper with a 2 ft handle to use to scrape Coraline algae off the front glass in my 90g tank
So, my worst and almost fatal mistake was only a year ago. My fish store told me to tie my java fern down to a rock with sewing thread. I chose the heavy duty stuff so it wouldn't break down. About a month later, I walk by my tank and notice one of my cory cats going bonkers. He was going around and around in a perfect circle along the bottom on the tank. I went in and tried to pick him up, he nearly killed himself trying to get away from me, but he couldn't. Turned out he had somehow gotten the loop that was around the java fern had gotten caught around his lips!!!! I ended up getting him out ( with a lot of effort that had him bleeding) and took a needle and slowly released the knot around his lips. He survived and completely healed. I will never use string or fishing line in my tank again!!!!!
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enrgizerbunny
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You'd probably be okay with fishing line because of the way it behaves, but you have to tie different knots sometimes.
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