I have been meaning to make this thread for a few weeks but am just getting around to it now.
Some background first:
At the start of my school year I went into my guidance office to discover that there was a fish tank there (55 gallon). Being the fish lover that I was I noticed from the start that something was wrong with it. I asked the guy about it and he said it was his old tank from college so he set it up as a "decoration" instead of as a pet. He told me he knew very little about tanks but assumed they were some of the "easiest pets to take care of". He also said that the school janitors had been the ones taking care of it and he did nothing but watch it. Immediately I was appalled but feeling bad for the fish I offered to come in during lunch every day to take care of it. It was going fine for the first week when all I was doing was feeding them since I figured while the tank looked dirty the actual fish appeared fine. Then after a week I decided I would test the water just to make sure and when I looked through all there tank supplies, the ONLY things they had were a small bottle of water conditioner, cheap flake food, and a siphon. I later talked to the guy about buying a test kit and he said there wasn't enough money in the bidget for it. I reluctantly accepted I couldn't change that and asked him when he wanted me to do a water change. He responded in saying "what's a water change, that sounds like a lot of work". My jaw almost dropped to the floor when I heard that so I explained what it was still trying to be polite and he said they have NEVER done one or even changed the filter pads on the tank for the 2 years they have had it. I would have talked more but he had a meeting so I went out and checked the filters: one was dried up, broken and not even in working order. The other one's biowheels were completely broken and the filter pads were in the wrong spot. Every day I would go in and try to talk to him about some more money towards the tank but he would always say "I have a meeting to be at" trying to dodge my complaints. In the past few weeks the tank has lost more fish than I can keep track of from fin rot, bacterial infections, and stress. The stock as of now is terrible and includes: 2 glofish, 2 platies of some kind, 4 black mollies, 4 neon tetras, 1 peppered cory, and 1 common pleco. The tank is utterly falling apart from the inside and there is nothing I can do because there is no money to be spent on it. What do you guys think I should do? Should I keep pleading for money or should I be stern and demand they do something? As of now I plan on going in Monday and telling them they need to find owners for all the fish and sell the tank.
Here are some pictures of it:
Some background first:
At the start of my school year I went into my guidance office to discover that there was a fish tank there (55 gallon). Being the fish lover that I was I noticed from the start that something was wrong with it. I asked the guy about it and he said it was his old tank from college so he set it up as a "decoration" instead of as a pet. He told me he knew very little about tanks but assumed they were some of the "easiest pets to take care of". He also said that the school janitors had been the ones taking care of it and he did nothing but watch it. Immediately I was appalled but feeling bad for the fish I offered to come in during lunch every day to take care of it. It was going fine for the first week when all I was doing was feeding them since I figured while the tank looked dirty the actual fish appeared fine. Then after a week I decided I would test the water just to make sure and when I looked through all there tank supplies, the ONLY things they had were a small bottle of water conditioner, cheap flake food, and a siphon. I later talked to the guy about buying a test kit and he said there wasn't enough money in the bidget for it. I reluctantly accepted I couldn't change that and asked him when he wanted me to do a water change. He responded in saying "what's a water change, that sounds like a lot of work". My jaw almost dropped to the floor when I heard that so I explained what it was still trying to be polite and he said they have NEVER done one or even changed the filter pads on the tank for the 2 years they have had it. I would have talked more but he had a meeting so I went out and checked the filters: one was dried up, broken and not even in working order. The other one's biowheels were completely broken and the filter pads were in the wrong spot. Every day I would go in and try to talk to him about some more money towards the tank but he would always say "I have a meeting to be at" trying to dodge my complaints. In the past few weeks the tank has lost more fish than I can keep track of from fin rot, bacterial infections, and stress. The stock as of now is terrible and includes: 2 glofish, 2 platies of some kind, 4 black mollies, 4 neon tetras, 1 peppered cory, and 1 common pleco. The tank is utterly falling apart from the inside and there is nothing I can do because there is no money to be spent on it. What do you guys think I should do? Should I keep pleading for money or should I be stern and demand they do something? As of now I plan on going in Monday and telling them they need to find owners for all the fish and sell the tank.
Here are some pictures of it:
. If I can get the fish off them and anybody near by wants them I would be willing to give them away for free as long as it's to somebody responsible.