I think most of us has run into this from time to time. I raised a black pirhanna from a tiny fry to an almost 2 foot long monster with a fantastic personality. Had him for 15 years. he was in AZ during my move to california and my mom was taking care of him. on one trip my wife and I found him in baddly clouded water from over feeding. He was sick but we cleaned up the mess and he recovered. A couple of months later a power outage knocked out the filter systems and she didn't know how to reset them. Jaws didn't survive that diaster.
worst thing to do when your not home
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u guys should check out those automatic feeding machines they at least take out the problem of overfeeding (they only feed flakes but I guess its better than death!)
I hate it when I told everyone in my family to feed heavily with my tank being heavily stocked, not overtsocked. My stupid step-father thinks that a small PINCH is fine, and that the 3 BN plecs 2-3" can get enough food of the glass, there is NO algae! Only on the plants, which my SAE eats. P£sses me off!
hangner;1016953; said:
I have a few, but not enough for 9 tanks. And I am a small fry on this web site. I do not have any major monsters.
I taught a friend of mine how to take care of my tanks so when I go out of town he will take care of them for me. every time he is at my house I try to teach him a little more or show him something more. he has no aquariums of his own but he does a good job on mine
After reading all this I think I'm going to Fry's and get one of those cheapo battery back ups so at least I can run an air pump for a few days.
My kids are good fish keepers...well, let's say right now they're the only one's I trust.
My kids are good fish keepers...well, let's say right now they're the only one's I trust.
i came home this summer from a one week family vacation this summer to two dead tiger muskies, a whole tank of dead feeders, and the 55 community tank population cut in half, apparently 20 min of telling the neighbor kid that supposedly raised fish and knew what he was doing what exactly to do along with written dealtailed instructions wasnt enough. I knew I was done when on the third day of vacation I got a call saying one of the tanks was now so cloudy it was hard to see the fish. I lost probably around 50 bucks in fish initally, and another few fish the next week bc they were too gone to be recovered, with one of the worse ich outbreaks ive ever seen...had I been gone even one more day, the oscar and bichir would have been done for too. To make matters worse, my mom gave the kid 30 bucks for this 'care' and told him she that it "must have been the fishes time to go" and therefore just a matter of bad timing and that she was sorry he had to witness that. I honestly only trust myself on my tanks esp. now, as the time after that when i left for a weekend to go walleye fishing, my family accidently unplugged my filter, and my pike cichlid died 
As a result i brought all my fish to college w/me, as if theres no way i can leave them there for even a weekend, theres for sure no way i can for months.
As a result i brought all my fish to college w/me, as if theres no way i can leave them there for even a weekend, theres for sure no way i can for months.
I for a holiday 2 years ago for 8 weeks and i asked my uncle to look after my tank.
Got home and found the tank green. Everything was green, the rocks, the gravel, and all four sides on the glass.
He left the light on for the whole 8 weeks.
luckily all the fishes survived.
Got home and found the tank green. Everything was green, the rocks, the gravel, and all four sides on the glass.
He left the light on for the whole 8 weeks.
luckily all the fishes survived.
