mitche8359
Aquarium Advice Addict
I had a catastrophy over the holidays and have now just managed to deal with it. We were in the winter storm zone that hit the great lakes area the week of Christmas. Ended up loosing power on Thursday. We never lose power. It was out for 52 hours. With no heat we had to leave the house Chrismas Eve. I considered the tank a gonner. Even after power came back on I refused to look at the tank, out of dread. My wife looked for me. It was a disaster fish-wise, but surprisingly we had some survive. One of them will be a shocker...
We lost all the angels... some we've had for 8 years. the ram is gone as well, the siamese algea eaters, gone, the gold tetra gone, two black phantoms gone.
What survived? The pleco, the white high fin tetras, three black phantom tetras and an OTTO!!!! I was estatic when I heard the only remaining otto had survived.
I was grateful to the wife and three year old son. I couldn't drag myself to removing the deceased so they had a fishy funeral for me. I did notice within a week the snail population has taken over the tank, litterally. I'm wondering if one or more of the fish that died were controlling the snail population? Haven't really seen any of the deceased fish eat a snail. A friend said his red tetras attack snails with a vengence. They are mostly MTSs. Hundreds of them. They don't care about whether its light or dark, they are out 24/7. Started cleaning up the tank after several weeks of neglect. I need to get the snails under control. I'll go back and read other threads on snail control, but does anyone know of a natural control that's native to South America? I've tried the cucumber on a string before with little success.
Anyone have ideas on how to protect a tank when electric is out, other than a back up generator? I really didn't expect the electric to be out that long. I could have wrapped some blankets around the tank to try to insulate it.
We lost all the angels... some we've had for 8 years. the ram is gone as well, the siamese algea eaters, gone, the gold tetra gone, two black phantoms gone.
What survived? The pleco, the white high fin tetras, three black phantom tetras and an OTTO!!!! I was estatic when I heard the only remaining otto had survived.
I was grateful to the wife and three year old son. I couldn't drag myself to removing the deceased so they had a fishy funeral for me. I did notice within a week the snail population has taken over the tank, litterally. I'm wondering if one or more of the fish that died were controlling the snail population? Haven't really seen any of the deceased fish eat a snail. A friend said his red tetras attack snails with a vengence. They are mostly MTSs. Hundreds of them. They don't care about whether its light or dark, they are out 24/7. Started cleaning up the tank after several weeks of neglect. I need to get the snails under control. I'll go back and read other threads on snail control, but does anyone know of a natural control that's native to South America? I've tried the cucumber on a string before with little success.
Anyone have ideas on how to protect a tank when electric is out, other than a back up generator? I really didn't expect the electric to be out that long. I could have wrapped some blankets around the tank to try to insulate it.