So in my spare time, I like to help people maintain and set up aquariums. Today I got a call from a local day care that has 3 tanks, a 46g and 2 10g's, and they needed the 46 set up and the 2 10g's worked on. I got to the tiny GHETTO place and immediately saw the 46g bowfront. It was a tank with a whisper 60, and all it had in it was blue marbles as a substrate, and clear tap water only. I thought to myself, this can't be too bad. Then they showed me the 10 gallon ones. The water in both tanks was completely murky. They had added straight tap water and added a 6" koi to each one as well as a 2" fantail. They had been highly overfed and one of the koi had no scales left from the chlorine. I put cycle in the 46 and dechlorinated the water, and after about 10 minutes put all the fish in there because they could not suffer in the nasty small tanks any longer. Then I fully cleaned out, dechloinated and cycled the small tanks. I have to go again tomorrow to check on them, and add fish as needed. I'm going with goldfish tanks in the 10 gallons, and a community of tetras and gouramis in the 46g. I'll find a new home where the koi can be rejunevated, and I'll inform them on how to keep up the tanks, and do monthly checkups. I still can't believe they had 6" koi in uncylced chlorinated 10 gallon tanks. I hope they can learn from me.
with a little education! 