I usually wouldn't do this but I know some of you personally and some only from here, but since I have fish from MFK people I didn't think it would be nice to just disappear either.
This is the short version - My ex and I split years ago, I signed over custody of the kids at the time, but since we were still friends I could see them whenever I wanted. Then stuff happened - like alcoholism - and my ex no longer had a job, or place to live, and moved out of state and in with family. My kids didn't want to be there. Fast forward almost two years. I finally get custody of the kids three weeks ago, my oldest pushed herself through school as an escape from everything (good kid) and graduated early this winter and went off to college the day I got custody of them. My son didn't fare as well. He went into a shell and failed most of fall semester at school this year. He's smart and gets it, but learns differently too, so we have him in a charter school homeschool program.
He's doing better, but my fish have suffered. With work, sleep, and teaching him at home for school I just don't have the time for everything. I thought we would fall into a better pattern where he could do an assignment by himself and finish it and maybe I could squeeze a water change in during that time, but he's not there yet and I don't seeing it happening for awhile. In the meantime my fish will suffer, and I don't want that either. We have tried figuring out what to do over these past few weeks and decided that cutting the fish load in the house was the only good solution. With 5 tanks, and four of those over 55 gallons I have no choice. I think I have a good home for some of them already, and we're switching gears a bit too. We are keeping the 125g and redoing the whole tank one weekend in the future, the other tanks are going to be sold off. I know I'll miss them, if I had the time I'd keep them, but it needs to happen. Wish me luck - pm me if you might want to buy a tank or fish, I will post in my profile blog what I have. No shipping, don't have the time.
This is the short version - My ex and I split years ago, I signed over custody of the kids at the time, but since we were still friends I could see them whenever I wanted. Then stuff happened - like alcoholism - and my ex no longer had a job, or place to live, and moved out of state and in with family. My kids didn't want to be there. Fast forward almost two years. I finally get custody of the kids three weeks ago, my oldest pushed herself through school as an escape from everything (good kid) and graduated early this winter and went off to college the day I got custody of them. My son didn't fare as well. He went into a shell and failed most of fall semester at school this year. He's smart and gets it, but learns differently too, so we have him in a charter school homeschool program.
He's doing better, but my fish have suffered. With work, sleep, and teaching him at home for school I just don't have the time for everything. I thought we would fall into a better pattern where he could do an assignment by himself and finish it and maybe I could squeeze a water change in during that time, but he's not there yet and I don't seeing it happening for awhile. In the meantime my fish will suffer, and I don't want that either. We have tried figuring out what to do over these past few weeks and decided that cutting the fish load in the house was the only good solution. With 5 tanks, and four of those over 55 gallons I have no choice. I think I have a good home for some of them already, and we're switching gears a bit too. We are keeping the 125g and redoing the whole tank one weekend in the future, the other tanks are going to be sold off. I know I'll miss them, if I had the time I'd keep them, but it needs to happen. Wish me luck - pm me if you might want to buy a tank or fish, I will post in my profile blog what I have. No shipping, don't have the time.
