So yesterday I put an ad on craigslist stating that I wanted to trade a guitar for two 55g fish tanks or bigger. I got a call a couple hours later and the guy stated that he had 2 fish tanks with all of the equipment needed, one of which was currently running. He also said that he had two Albino Red Oscars and a Pleco that was rather large. So I packed up my gear and my friend Ryan (eatyoualive) and I went to meet him. When I arrived, it was the slummiest, most beat up white trash house I've ever seen. His daughter running around outside with no shoes on through an old rusted out truck, two pitbulls tied up, the lot. But I digress. I go inside to look at the tanks, and what I see almost made me want to hit the guy in the face. The water was completely brown and the filters weren't even running in the tank. It now seemed like I was getting the short end of the stick, but I felt like if I didn't do this, these fish were going to die. He also said that he had been feeding them cichlid pellets alone for 5 and a half years. The second tank was in his garage and clearly had not been ran for months. So I manned up and decided to take the sacrifice for these fish's lives. I brought them home and immediately took them out of the water and put them in a 35g bucket with an airator (sp?) for the time being. Picking them up was like picking up dead weight. They simply had no will to live at this point. I put them in the bucket and added some Stress Coat + to see if that made them any more lively, which it did help. Long story short, I cleaned up the tanks and have one now running well in my room. The fish are much more lively and I've started changing up their diet already. I decided to feed them some celery today and they were quite interested in it. I'm oping for the best, and also a bigger tank for these monsters to get into.
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