Todd2
Aquarium Advice Freak
I hate it. I hate it. I hate it.
I can never do it right. I always get water ALL over the place. On the stand, on the carpet, on the hood. I have a syphon and stick one end of the tubing out the window. For some reason I always get a mouthful when I try to syphon. I guess theres like still water in there from the last WC. Then water gets on the window sill and everywhere. Why you ask? Because I'm clumsy/careless, I don't know.
Ok so today I had to break down my 10g. I wanted to cry. It was just so fustrating. Getting water all over the place and whatnot. And then to top it off I cracked the whole side of the 10g. I was trying to get all the gravel out. And for some STUPID reason I thought that if I bumped the side of the tank it would loosen the gravel that was caught on the lip of the tank, the gravel didn't want to come out. Great now I'm out a 10g. Its only $10 but I'm a highschool student and it broke because I DID something so stupid. I was just so frustrated because it could've been easily prevented if I hadn't been so careless/stupid. Then to top it off one of my ballast stopped working in my DIY hood for my 20g. Great. Now I'm going to have to fix that. I'll probably end up making a whole new hood. But that means more money that I don't have. Will a python help the water spillage issue? It probably will but then that means MORE money. I'll be getting a job in December but thats months away. Also, I don't even know if I'm going to try to breed dwarf gouramis. I've been wanting to do it and doing research, but since today I'm thinking if I can't even keep my own tank straight how am I going to breed fish. And then there's my plants which have been slowly turning brown. That makes me feel like a failure/screw up. Today has just been very frustrating, it kind of makes me not want fish tanks. I kind of feel better now though and on the bright side at least my fish are doing ok, healthwise. Thanks for reading if you read this far.
/rant
I can never do it right. I always get water ALL over the place. On the stand, on the carpet, on the hood. I have a syphon and stick one end of the tubing out the window. For some reason I always get a mouthful when I try to syphon. I guess theres like still water in there from the last WC. Then water gets on the window sill and everywhere. Why you ask? Because I'm clumsy/careless, I don't know.
Ok so today I had to break down my 10g. I wanted to cry. It was just so fustrating. Getting water all over the place and whatnot. And then to top it off I cracked the whole side of the 10g. I was trying to get all the gravel out. And for some STUPID reason I thought that if I bumped the side of the tank it would loosen the gravel that was caught on the lip of the tank, the gravel didn't want to come out. Great now I'm out a 10g. Its only $10 but I'm a highschool student and it broke because I DID something so stupid. I was just so frustrated because it could've been easily prevented if I hadn't been so careless/stupid. Then to top it off one of my ballast stopped working in my DIY hood for my 20g. Great. Now I'm going to have to fix that. I'll probably end up making a whole new hood. But that means more money that I don't have. Will a python help the water spillage issue? It probably will but then that means MORE money. I'll be getting a job in December but thats months away. Also, I don't even know if I'm going to try to breed dwarf gouramis. I've been wanting to do it and doing research, but since today I'm thinking if I can't even keep my own tank straight how am I going to breed fish. And then there's my plants which have been slowly turning brown. That makes me feel like a failure/screw up. Today has just been very frustrating, it kind of makes me not want fish tanks. I kind of feel better now though and on the bright side at least my fish are doing ok, healthwise. Thanks for reading if you read this far.
/rant