When I set up my guppy tub, I drilled holes in the sides to prevent fry loss from flooding, I threw in fast growing, dense plants and seeded with cyano for greenwater so fry would survive against their parents, and I got a stainless steel mesh lid to allow mosquitoes to pass through but keep dragonflies and birds out.
The lid did its job against birds and dragonflies, I had close to a hundred fish in there last week.
Today I found only 4 alive. Because a foot long rat squeezed itself under the mesh lid and drowned. Its rotting corpse poisoned all but 4 of the fish.
Moral of the story, obviously, there's always things you aren't prepared for.
Lessons I learned: bolt down the lid next time, and instead of persuing aquaculture as a career, perhaps becoming an exterminator would help maintain my sanity.
There went $500 worth of fish I could have sold, now I have to scrape something else up for money because I am not allowed to get an actual job. Christmas gifts for the family and a new guitar gone because a rat decided to off itself and erase 5 months of progress and a few hundred dollars worth of fish.
The lid did its job against birds and dragonflies, I had close to a hundred fish in there last week.
Today I found only 4 alive. Because a foot long rat squeezed itself under the mesh lid and drowned. Its rotting corpse poisoned all but 4 of the fish.
Moral of the story, obviously, there's always things you aren't prepared for.
Lessons I learned: bolt down the lid next time, and instead of persuing aquaculture as a career, perhaps becoming an exterminator would help maintain my sanity.
There went $500 worth of fish I could have sold, now I have to scrape something else up for money because I am not allowed to get an actual job. Christmas gifts for the family and a new guitar gone because a rat decided to off itself and erase 5 months of progress and a few hundred dollars worth of fish.
